Nippon Gene Co., Ltd. manufactures research tools, human IVDs (In vitro diagnostics), and non-human IVDs. It provides restriction enzymes, modifying enzymes, plasmid, primers and probes, agarose, buffers, reagents for LAMP and PCR, plant disease diagnostic kits, allergen detection kits, agrichemical detection kits, antibiotics detection kits, GMO detection reagents and others. The company was founded on January 25, 1982 and is headquartered in Toyama, Japan.