Life Technologies

Life Technologies is a global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition with innovative life science products. Its Ion Torrent division has developed an integrated circuit that sees chemistry, enabling a DNA sequencing system that directly translates biological information into digital information on a semiconductor chip. Ion produces its proprietary semiconductor chips in standard CMOS factories leveraging 40 years of accumulated Moore's Law and the US$ 1 trillion investment that has been made in the semiconductor industry.