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Celera Corporation is a subsidiary of Quest Diagnostics which focuses on genetic sequencing and related technologies. It was founded in 1998 as a business unit of Applera , spun off into an independent company in 2008, and finally acquired by Quest Diagnostics in 2011.
Applera Corporation of Norwalk, Connecticut, at #874 on the 2007 Fortune 1000 list, was one of the largest international biotechnology companies based in the United States. . It was the successor company to what was the Life Sciences Division of Perkin-Elmer Corporati
The statement sent Celera's stock plummeting and dragged down the biotechnology-heavy Nasdaq. The biotechnology sector lost about $50 billion in market capitalization in two days. [citation needed] Although the working draft was announced in June 2000, it was not until February 2001 that Celera and the HGP scientists published details of their ...
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is an American clinical laboratory.A Fortune 500 company, Quest operates in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Brazil. [3] Quest also maintains collaborative agreements with various hospitals and clinics across the globe.
[3] [4] Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). He was the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc. and Synthetic Genomics. He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
On May 6, 1999, the recapitalization of the company resulted in issuance of the two new classes of common stock, called PE Corporation-PE Biosystems Group Common Stock and PE Corporation-Celera Genomics Group Common Stock. [19] On that date, trading began in both new stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, to great excitement. [18]
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PerkinElmer, Inc., previously styled Perkin-Elmer, is an American global corporation that was founded in 1937 and originally focused on precision optics.Over the years it went into and out of several different businesses via acquisitions and divestitures; these included defense products, semiconductors, computer systems, and others.