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Areas of Focus

At Invitrogen, we are developing a comprehensive system of technologies, services and online capabilities to increase the pace of innovation.  Our portfolio comprises more than 25,000 products spanning the spectrum of life science from genetic studies through protein identification, drug discovery and process development.

Robust, scalable screening tools

    • Immortalized, nontransformed cell lines (e.g., hepatocytes)
    • Cell immortalization technology
    • Drug transporters
    • Novel disease models (in vivo, in vitro, & in silico)

Sensitive, quantitative labeling & detection

    • Small animal in vivo imaging
    • Labels (dyes, nanoparticles, Qdot® Nanocrystals)
    • Live-cell cytoskeletal probes
    • Physiological sensors
    • Near-IR dyes
    • In situ nucleic acid labeling
    • Software for image acquisition, structure & image analysis, & automation
    • Flow cytometry platforms
    • Conjugation chemistry
    • Fluorescent proteins
    • Protein-protein interaction tools
    • DNA/RNA in situ hybridization probes
    • Organelle stains & probes
    • Neurobiology tools

Cell culture technologies, bioproduction tools, & stem cells

    • Serum-free mammalian cell culture media
    • Growth factors
    • Technologies for stem cell separation, characterization, expansion, & differentiation
    • Cell culture platforms
    • Cryopreservants
    • Characterization arrays
    • 3D cell growth matrices

Genomics, proteomics, & gene regulation

    • Mammalian cell delivery (tissue-specific, in vivo, in vitro, & primary cells)
    • Homologous recombination
    • Gene expression regulation tools
    • microRNA analysis tools
    • Quantitative real-time nucleic acid detection (non-PCR)
    • High-throughput, positional, parallel sequencing
    • Gene synthesis tools
    • Linker chemistries for arrays (gene/protein)
    • Epigenetic tools for detecting differentially methylated genes & hemimethyl transferases
    • Protein separation & sample fractionation
    • Detection tags
    • Mass spectrometry reagents & tags
    • LC-MS reagents

Other

    • Antibodies (especially cardiovascular & stem cell antibodies)
    • Non-antibody affinity reagents
    • Biomarkers (especially cancer)
    • Microfluidics solutions/platforms
    • Sample preparation technologies
    • in vivo targeting
    • Clinical in vivo imaging
    • HLA genotyping
    • T-cell expansion
    • Blood cell separation technologies
    • Serum analysis tools
    • Magnetic separation & handling technology
    • Technologies for rare analyte detection & quantitation