Our Brands

Life Technologies' Brands

Life Technologies is known for industry-leading brands from reagents to instruments. These include:

Applied Biosystems

Applied Biosystems is a global leader in providing innovative instrument systems to accelerate academic and clinical research, drug discovery and development, pathogen detection, environmental analysis, and forensic DNA analysis.

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Invitrogen

Invitrogen offers the broadest range of reagents for scientific research of any brand in the world. Its innovative reagents are used in all major areas of biological discovery including functional genomics, proteomics, stem cells, cell therapy and cell biology.

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Ambion®
RNA & RNA sample prep

Products for the isolation, amplification, and stabilization of RNA.

Dynal®
Magnetic beads for separation

From immunoprecipitation solutions to cutting-edge stem cell isolation kits.

Gateway®
Cloning and protein expression

Technologies to simplify cloning and enable access to virtually any protein expression system.

GIBCO®
Cell culture

The broadest spectrum of high quality cells, media, reagents and sera.

Lipofectamine®
Transfection reagents

Superior delivery, high efficiency and low toxicity for a broad range of cell types.

Molecular Probes®
Fluroescent dyes & probes

The most-referenced fluorescence and imaging technology portfolio to enable cellular exploration.

Novex®
Protein separation and blotting

Gels, stains, standards, and blotting products to tackle every protein analysis challenge.

SuperScript®
RT gene expression

Best-in-class cDNA synthesis, combining maximum yield with maximum sensitivity.

TaqMan®
Real-time PCR

Comprehensive collection of gene-specific primer and probe sets for gene expression studies.

TOPO®
PCR cloning

The fastest, most reliable, and most-referenced cloning technology.

News

  • SOLiD 4 Announced

    Company announces SOLiD(TM) 4 System, delivering industry's most cost effective, highest quality genome for $6,000, reduced to $3,000 by end of 2010 with SOLiD(TM) 4hq upgrade.

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  • LT & Ignite Institute

    Life Technologies and the Ignite Institute for Individualized Health for a collaboration to create a ground-breaking genomic sequencing center at Ignite's new facility in Northern Virginia. Ignite will acquire 100 of the Applied Biosystems SOLiD(TM) 4 Systems, the most advanced next generation DNA sequencing platform on the market, establishing the largest concentration of genetic analytical power in North America.

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  • Q4 & FY09 Results

    Life Technologies today announced results for its fourth quarter and full year ending December 31, 2009. Non-GAAP revenue for the fourth quarter was $874 million, resulting in full year non-GAAP revenues of $3.30 billion, an increase of 5 percent over the $3.14 billion reported for 2008, as if Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems had been combined.

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