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Life Technologies
Biotech company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Life Technologies Corporation was a biotech company founded in November 2008 through a US $6.7 billion merger of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems Inc. The joint sales of the combined companies were about $3.5 billion; they had about 9,500 employees and owned more than 3,600 licenses and patents.[1]
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Company type | Retired Brand Name |
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Industry | Life Science/Biotechnology |
Predecessor | Invitrogen Applied Biosystems |
Founded | 2008 (2008) |
Defunct | 2014 (2014) |
Fate | Acquired by Thermo Fisher |
Headquarters | Carlsbad, California , |
Parent | Thermo Fisher Scientific ![]() |
Website | www.lifetechnologies.com |
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