abstract:Invitrogen Corporation (was traded as ) was a large, multinational biotechnology company headquartered in Carlsbad, California. In November 2008, a merger between Applied Biosystems and Invitrogenwas finalized.
The first chemical alone could bring in millions of dollars, making it one of Invitrogen's top sellers, according to Lewis Shuster , Invitrogen's chief operating officer.
Before Invitrogen announced it had licensed these chemicals, Diversa had only one product on the market, an enzyme that cleans the hot depths of oil wells.
