Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc. engages in plant breeding research and development services. It develops types of vegetables, which are marketed to commercial vegetable growers, dealers, distributors, and wholesalers. The firm’s products include Fresh Market, Home Garden, Processor, Performance Series Sweet Corn, SummerSlice Watermelons and Pepper X10R and Technology. The company was founded in 1865 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Affymetrix, Inc. was an American company that manufactured DNA microarrays; it was based in Santa Clara, California, United States. The company was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in March 2016. The company was founded by Stephen Fodor in 1992. It began as a unit in Affymax N.V. in 1991 by Fodor's group, which had in the late 1980s developed methods for fabricating DNA microarrays, called "GeneChip" according to the Affymetrix trademark, using semiconductor manufacturing techniques. The company's first product, an HIV genotyping GeneChip, was introduced in 1994 and the company went public in 1996. As a result of its pioneering work and the ensuing popularity of microarray products, Affymetrix derived significant benefit from its patent portfolio in this area.

Enza Zaden Beheer BV engages in the vegetable-breeding activities. It focuses on the development of vegetable varieties, and production and sale of vegetable seeds. The company was founded by Jacob Mazereeuw in 1938 and is headquartered in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.

Nanogen, Inc., a diagnostics company, engages in developing, manufacturing, and selling diagnostic products for use in the in vitro diagnostic market in the United States, Canada, and Europe. It offers diagnostic test kits and reagents based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology in the molecular diagnostic market. The company’s PCR molecular product lines comprise Q-PCR Alert products for in-vitro diagnostic use, and are sold in Italy via a contract sales force and in other European countries through a network of distributors; and MGB Alert products. It also offers point-of-care products, which include qualitative cardiac test products that are rapid test assays used in emergency care settings for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction; quantitative cardiac tests, a quantitative test measuring the concentration of the peptide NT-proBNP for the diagnosis of congestive heart failure; and pandemic influenza test that detects and differentiates the various strains of influenza, including potential pandemic strains. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. On May 13, 2009, Nanogen, Inc., along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

KeyGene NV provides its partners and customers in the plant breeding industry contract research, partnerships and molecular genetic services. It delivers novel enabling technologies and applications to support companies and institutes that carry out fundamental or applied genetic genomic research and that seek to enhance the quality of their products through the improvement of their genetic material. The company was established in 1989 and is headquartered in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Genetic Technologies is a global molecular diagnostic business with an extensive range of international patents and a portfolio of tests and related services. Our aim is simple: to concentrate on markets where we can establish a long-term dominant position by providing tests that genuinely affect clinical outcomes. We are already the leading non-government genetic testing business in Australia, and through our wholly owned subsidiary Phenogen Sciences, we now have a solid and growing presence in the USA. We remain committed to the development of a global portfolio of cancer management tests. The first of which is the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Test, BREVAGenTM.

Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of of tinplate, sheet metals, and different types of surface-treated steel sheets as well as a variety of functional materials. It operates through the following segments: Steel Sheet, Functional Materials, and Machinery. The Steel Sheet segment offers functional films for containers, steel plates, and processed steel sheets used as material for electrical and electronic parts, for vehicles, and for external cladding and construction. The Functional Material segment deals with aluminum substrate for magnetic disks and optical functional films. The Machinery segment handles automotive press die and other kinds of die, steel strip for packing materials, machinery instruments, and hard alloys. The company was founded on April 11, 1934 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Rothamsted Research Ltd., a subsidiary of Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, is a company headquartered in Harpenden, UK. The firm operates a research institute specializing in crop science. It was founded in 1843 by John Bennet Lawes. Achim Dobermann is the current CEO of the firm.\nThe company says this about itself: Rothamsted Research is a world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide.

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement operates as a scientific and technical public institution which provides information, expertise, support and training in production performance. It performs research centered on the relationship between human beings and its environment in intertropical areas. In that context the IRD implements research projects on sleeping sickness and the vectors transmitting the disease. The company is headquartered in Marseille, France.

CAVΛDIS™ is a Dutch biomedical company active in the field of cardiovascular risk assessment. They develop prognostic tests to identify patients at risk of cardiovascular and disease. The company identified several novel biomarkers predictive for cardiovascular events. It is their goal is to develop clinically meaningful risk stratification tools that will help personalize treatment and achieve better patient outcomes.

PBL develops innovative technologies from public and private sources worldwide - turning ideas into patented, scientifically validated and licensable technologies. PBL invests in building intellectual property protection, and develops technologies through proof-of-concept and prototype stage and licenses onwards to a wide variety of industry sectors. Our interests cover AgBiotech, Food / Nutrition, Microbiology, Biotechnology and related Life Science industries. We market our technologies internationally and have regular contact with a very wide range of industrial customers, licensees and development partners.

Orchid Cellmark, Inc. provides DNA testing services. It generates genetic profile information by analysing an organism's unique genetic identity. The firm also offers non-DNA forensic laboratory services. The company was founded on March 8, 1995 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

Incyte is a drug discovery and development company which hopes to build a proprietary product pipeline of novel small molecule drugs. Incyte's product pipeline is currently focused on oncology and inflammation and includes compounds in various stages of development. Through partnerships with [Novartis](/organization/novartis), [Eli Lilly](/organization/eli-lilly), and [Pfizer](/organization/pfizer), Incyte intends to promote the clinical development and global commercialization of several of their compounds.

Develops and manufactures agricultural and noncrop products

Curable, Inc. engages in the provision of genome analytics services. Its services include genetic analysis, genetic diagnosis, and development of single nucleotide polymorphism analysis busine diagnostic marker. The company was founded on May 26, 2000 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.