Bio-Rad Laboratories, incorporated in 1957, is a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products and clinical diagnostics. The company provides a broad range of products that incorporate technologies, including electrophoresis, imaging, immunoassay, chromatography, microbiology, bioinformatics and transfection. Its products are used to identify, analyze, and purify chemical and biological material components. The company s clinical diagnostics segment offers technologies used in a variety of tests to detect, identify and quantify substances in blood and other bodily fluids and tissues to hospital laboratories, reference laboratories, physician office laboratories, government agencies, and other diagnostics manufacturers. Bio-Rad Laboratories is headquartered in Hercules, Calif., and serves more than 70,000 research and industry customers worldwide through a network of over 30 wholly owned subsidiary offices.