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GE Healthcare Medical Diagnostics helps your doctor to see right through you. The division, formerly Amersham plc, is one of the world's top producers of contrast-imaging agents and nuclear medicine agents used to enhance image quality in X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound procedures. General Electric formed the division when it acquired Amersham and placed under its GE Healthcare umbrella. The former Amersham bioscience operations, which makes purification systems that allow for the development of more effective drugs through protein analysis, DNA sequencing, and genetic variation, is part of the GE Healthcare Life Sciences division.

GeneThera, formerly called Hand Brand Distribution, develops genetic diagnostic assays for the agriculture and veterinary industries. The biotech company has developed assays that detect Chronic Wasting Disease in elk and deer, and Mad Cow Disease in cattle. The company is working on cancer detection tests for animals, as well as similar tests for humans, through its partnership with Xpention, a biotechnology company focused on oncology diagnostics. GeneThera is also developing vaccines for animal diseases, such as E. coli.

Gentronix is a biotechnology company that provides pharmaceutical makers with drug development products and monitoring services. Gentronix's products and services are geared toward helping drug discovery scientists speed up pre-clinical research and development. The company's main product, Greenscreen, uses cellular biosensor technology to test potential pharmaceutical compounds for genotoxicity (DNA damage) and cytotoxicity (general cellular damage). The company was founded in 1999 as part of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology's Biomolecular Sciences and Instrumentation & Analytical Science departments.

Genzyme Diagnostics was founded in 1981. A division of Genzyme, it develops, manufactures, and distributes "in vitro" diagnostic products, including point-of-care tests. The division also produces the raw materials (such as enzymes and antibodies used in tests for diabetes, cholesterol, and pancreatitis) and chemical reagents used by other diagnostic test manufacturers to make their own diagnostic tests. The company's point-of-care products (tests administered at a patient's bedside) include tests for strep A, mononucleosis, and bacterial vaginitis; it also offers several different pregnancy tests.

Guerbet Group is one of Europe's leading makers of contrast agents used in medical imaging. Most of the company's products, such as Xenetix, Hexabrix, and Dotarem, are substances that are injected into the body to make internal organs visible during X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations. Subsidiary Simafex manufactures specialty chemicals for use in pharmaceuticals. Guerbet has operations in some 15 countries and is targeting growth in the US. Marcel Guerbet, grandfather of chairman Michel Guerbet, developed the first iodinated contrast agent around the turn of the century; his descendants control the company.

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