US Bioscience

• Private
• US

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USB Corporation has a long-standing reputation as a leader in the life sciences, fueling innovation in basic research, drug discovery and molecular diagnostics. The company history reaches back to the 1970s, known then as United States Biochemical, a company that specialized in supplying biochemicals to the research market. In the 1980s, a collaboration with scientists (Tabor & Richardson) at Harvard University led to the commercialization of Sequenase? DNA Polymerase and the first easy-to-use DNA sequencing kits. This technology pioneered development of themostable enzymes and automation for high-throughput sequencing. In 1993, United States Biochemical was purchased by Amersham Life Science, a British company who later merged with Swedish-owned Pharmacia Biotech in 1997. At that time, a group of local managers at USB acquired three of the original main product lines: biochemicals, molecular biology enzymes and manual DNA sequencing reagents. These products formed the basis of the new USB Corporation, founded in October of 1998. GE HealthCare, formerly Amersham Biosciences, continues to distribute USB products throughout the world. In 2005, USB acquired Anatrace, a recognized leader in manufacturing detergents for membrane protein studies. Anatrace offers a wide variety of unique, high-purity detergents including lipid-like Fos-Choline detergents, CYMAL detergents, and PMAL? polymeric solubilization aids. ...

Number of Employees 74

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