Applied Biosystems, Inc. is the original name of a pioneer biotechnology company founded in 1981 in Foster City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through the 1980s it operated independently and manufactured biochemicals and automated genetic engineering and diagnostic research instruments, including the principal brand of DNA sequencing machine used by the Human Genome Project consortium centers. Applied Biosystems' close ties to the consortium project led to the idea for the founding of Celera Genomics in 1998 as one of several independent competitors to the consortium.
In November 2008, a merger between Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen [4] was finalized "creating a global leader in biotechnology reagents and systems". The new company will be called Life Technologies.
Bioportugal is the Portuguese dealer since 2006, following the acquisition of Ambion (company that we were distributing since 1999) by Applied Biosystems. We offer to our customers specialized on site technical and scientific support, trainings, seminars and workshops in real-time PCR.
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