Bio-Rad
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Bio-Rad Laboratories is a life science research, clinical diagnostics and informatics company based in Hercules, California, United States. It was founded in 1957 by David & Alice Schwartz.
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Bio-Rad's Life Science Research Group is best known for its pioneering work in electrophoresis for over 50 years. Other key areas of strength are DNA amplification, chromatography, imaging, gene transfer, microarray technology, nucleic acid and protein quantitation, protein expression, blotting, multiplexing assays, software and the Biotechnology Explorer Program ,and since 1999 : tests for HIV-1 and HIV-2; Hepatitis A, B and C; syphilis and CMV and Immunohematology. Bio-Rad is also notable for developing a test for BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in 2000. Bio-Rad became the first company to supply the tests to Europe and Japan in 2001.
The science magazine 'Nature' reports that Bio-Rad's and other manufacturers' high prices of supplies drain cash from poorer nations' labs However, this may be an unavoidable consequence of normal supply and demand.
Bio-Rad has an office in Hemel Hempstead, England. This office used to have a large manufacturing division (cellscience), which was closed down and sold to Carl Zeiss in 2004. [1] Since this time, the Hemel Hempstead offices have moved to a smaller building.
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