Bioline is a biotechnology company headquartered in London, UK. It develops, manufacturesand markets a wide variety of specialized bio-research reagents. Bioline is an ISO 9001:2000certified company and one of the world’s few manufacturers of ultra-pure dNTPs. The companyis able to offer bulk, custom and OEM dNTP servicesfor large labs carrying out multiple assays.It has developed and manufactured a portfolio of more than 300 reagents and kits, many of themproprietary, for molecular biology, cell analysis and nucleic acid and protein separation andpurification.

Invitrogen Corp. is now part of Life Technologies. Invitrogen produces a large number ofproducts: Dynabeads magnetic separation technology, GIBCO cell culture media and reagents,SuperScript reverse transcriptase, Platinum Taq polymerase, TOPO cloning and expressionproducts, Novex protein electrophoresis products, and numerous fluorescent reagents such asQdot nanocrystals and Alexa Fluor and SYBR dyes. The company currently offers more than25,000 products and services to support research incellular analysis, genomics, proteomics, anddrug discovery, and has sought to leverage their extensive technology portfolio to addressresearch problems in developing fields, including biodefense and environmental diagnostics,bioinformatics, epigenetics, and stem cell research.

Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. is a biotechnology company that focuses on producing researchantibody reagents. It is based out of Santa Cruz, California, USA. The company has over 33,500antibodies and offers many other products as well, including siRNA products and transfectionderivedlysates.

BD Biosciences is a world leader in bringing innovative diagnostic and research tools to lifescientists, clinical researchers, laboratory professionals and clinicians who are involved in basicresearch, drug discovery and development, biopharmaceutical production and diseasemanagement. The BD Biosciences segment is focused on continually advancing the science andapplications associated with cellular analysis and products that help grow living cells and tissue.

Pierce Protein Research Products are anotherThermo Scientific brand. Pierce is one of theleading suppliers that develop systems for protein purification, modification and detection. Theproducts are extensively used in research areas including assay development, western blotting,mass spec, signal transduction, antibody production, avidin-biotin interaction, proteinpurification and crosslinking.

HyClone, a subsidiary of Thermo Scientific, is widely known for more than 30 years as thepremier supplier of quality sera for cell culture,HyClone classical media, serum-free andprotein-free media, process liquids and flexible, single-use BioProcess Container systems that setindustry standards for quality and innovation. With innovations in serum processing, disposableliquid manufacturing, customized media development, buffers, WFI and specialized productsforstem cell research, HyClone obtains the most advanced productivity for life-science research andprotein-based drug production.

Roche Applied Science, a business area of Roche Diagnostics, is part of Hoffmann–La RocheAG, Basel, Switzerland, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. RocheApplied Science is one of the world's leading producers of reagents and systems for life scienceresearch, developing and marketing components formedical and biotechnological research. Thefocus is on e.g., DNA sequencing, gene expression,gene knockdown, transfection, and proteinanalysis. The company also offers reagents for the pharmaceuticals and diagnostics industries.

Merck KGaA (EMD Chemicals in the United States and Canada) is a German-based chemicaland pharmaceutical company. Its biosciences sectorprovides a range of life science researchproducts (e.g. antibodies, biochemicals and inhibitors and peptide synthesis reagents) of brandsincluding Calbiochem, Novabiochem, and Novagen.They are used worldwide in universitylaboratories as well as in pharmaceutical and biotech industries.