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Clontech Laboratories, Inc., provides kits, reagents and services that help researchers explore questions about gene discovery, regulation and function. As the newest member of the Takara Bio Group, Clontech joins a company that holds a leadership position in the global market and is comitted to improving the human condition through biotechnology. Clontech's mission is to develop high-quality innovative tools and services to accelerate discovery.

In order to maintain our position as an industry leader, we foster an environment of collaboration and discovery for our research scientists and with the research community at large. Our scientists are leaders in their fields and publish regularly in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Biotechniques, Science and PNAS. Clontech holds over 30 patents and offers novel tools for studying gene expression analysis, subcellular localization, apoptosis and signal transduction. In addition, our scientists have authored guides and publications that are industry standards in technologies ranging from PCR to gene expression profiling to yeast two-hybrid systems.

We actively seek research and business partnerships with industry innovators and leaders. Our research and development efforts have resulted in award-winning technologies and the introduction of novel tools to the market. Clontech introduced the first commercially available antibody microarray, a unique tool that allows users to study hundreds of cellular proteins in one experiment. We have also received R&D 100 awards for our fluorescent proteins, apoptosis detection systems, cDNA arrays, tet-regulated gene expression systems and retroviral expression systems.

Clontech is commited to understanding and meeting quality needs and expectations of all of our customers. To guarantee continuous process improvement, we have established a comprehensive quality assurance program to meet our commitment to total customer satisfaction as well as the requirements of ISO 9001:2008. Continuous quality improvement is the responsibility of every employee and we build quality into each and everything we do.