Meridian Bioscience, Inc. company was founded in 1976 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Meridian Bioscience, Inc. operates as an integrated life science company. The company primarily engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and distribution of diagnostic test kits primarily for respiratory, gastrointestinal, viral, and parasitic infectious diseases. Its diagnostic test kits utilize immunodiagnostic technologies, which test samples of blood, urine, stool, and other body fluids or tissues for the presence of antigens and antibodies of specific infectious diseases. The immunodiagnostic technologies include enzyme immunoassay, immunofluorescence, particle agglutination/aggregation, immunodiffusion, complement fixation, and chemical stains. The company also provides transport media that store and preserve specimen samples from patient collection to laboratory testing. In addition, Meridian Bioscience manufactures and distributes bulk antigens, antibodies, and reagents used by researchers and other diagnostic manufacturers. Further, it involves in the contract development and manufacture of proteins and other biologicals for use by biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in research for new drugs and vaccines. Meridian Bioscience markets its diagnostic test kits through direct sales force and independent distributors to reference laboratories and hospitals primarily in the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, Holland, Italy, Africa, and the Middle East.

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland boasts itself as one of the largest pharmaceutical businesses in the country. A subsidiary of French giant Sanofi-Aventis, the company manufactures and markets prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Along with its Lantus and Insuman insulin products, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland produces Plavix and Lovenox. The company also dedicates much of its efforts on research and development at its Frankfurt, Germany headquarters and is focused on metabolic illnesses such as diabetes, as well as cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

U.S. Genomics, Inc. company has developed the GeneEngine, a DNA sequencer that mimics natural cell division, rapidly reading and copying DNA. It is developing the technology to quickly detect and identify infectious pathogens and biomarkers for biodefense and diagnostic use. Its products can detect and quantify molecules of DNA, RNA, and proteins without amplification. Backed by private equity investors and biomedical firms including Becton Dickinson, U.S. Genomics has netted contracts with the Department of Homeland Security. Northrup Gruman is the company's bio-security development partner.

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Anadys Pharmaceuticals was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing medicines in the areas of hepatitis C and oncology. It develops ANA598, a small-molecule non-nucleoside inhibitor of the NS5B polymerase for the treatment of hepatitis C; and ANA773, an oral toll-like receptor 7 agonist prodrug for the treatment of hepatitis C and cancer. The company was formerly known as Scriptgen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in May 2000.

DRAXIS Specialty Pharmaceuticals (formerly DRAXIS Health) lights up your insides with its own radiopharmaceuticals, but its main business is making other drug companies' injectable drugs, lotions and pills. The company's larger DRAXIS Pharma unit is a contract manufacturer specializing in liquid and freeze-dried injectable drugs, though it also makes sterile and non-sterile ointments, creams, and other formulations. Another unit, DRAXIMAGE, develops and makes radiopharmaceuticals, such as radioactive iodine, for use in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures. DRAXIMAGE sells its products mostly in the US and Canada. In 2008 India-based Jubilant Organosys acquired DRAXIS for about $255 million.

Abbott Laboratories company was founded in 1888 and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois. Abbott Laboratories manufactures and sells health care products worldwide. Abbott company's Pharmaceutical Products segment offers adult and pediatric pharmaceuticals for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, dyslipidemia, HIV infection, hypothyroidism, advanced prostate cancer, endometriosis and central precocious puberty, anemia caused by uterine fibroids, obesity, epilepsy and bipolar disorder, migraines, and secondary hyperparathyroidism; and provides anesthesia products and anti-infectives. Its Diagnostic Products segment offers immunoassay systems; chemistry systems; assays used for screening and/or diagnosis for drugs of abuse, cancer, therapeutic drug monitoring, fertility, physiological diseases, and infectious diseases; instruments that automate the extraction, purification, and preparation of DNA and RNA from patient samples, and detect and measure infections agents; genomic-based tests; hematology systems and reagents; and point-of-care diagnostic systems and tests for blood analysis.Abbott Company's Nutritional Products segment provides various forms of prepared infant formula and follow-on formula, adult and other pediatric nutritional products, nutritional products used in enteral feeding in health care institutions, and bars and nutritional brands. Its Vascular Products segment offers coronary, endovascular, and vessel closure devices, such as drug-eluting coronary stent systems, coronary metallic stents, balloon dilatation products, coronary guidewires, vessel closure devices, and carotid stent systems to treat vascular disease. Abbott serves wholesalers, government agencies, health care facilities, specialty pharmacies, independent retailers, hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, blood banks, commercial laboratories, alternate-care testing sites, plasma protein therapeutic companies, and third-party distributors.

ChemOvation offers contract drug discovery research and design services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. ChemOvation has expertise in organic and medicinal chemistry, and drug discovery. ChemOvation also provides protein binding and compound solubility measurements for clients' metabolism research. ChemOvation's team of contractors is built around a core of organic chemists and technicians. Formed in 1999, the company merged with KuDOS Pharmaceuticals in 2000. ChemOvation dissolved those bonds in 2005 having spun off from KuDOS and is independent once again.

Phase Bioscience is a biotechnology firm that has developed a technology utilizing genetically-engineered biopolymer peptides (ELPs) that changes solubility (from a liquid to a solid and back) based on the temperature and the salt content of the solution. Known as deltaPhase, Phase Bioscience's ELPs are designed to be used by pharmaceutical researchers in drug discovery processes and in life science applications, including recombinant protein purification (isolating a particular protein in a solution) and enzyme biocatalysts (isolating a particular recombinant enzyme in a solution).

Quality Assured Services (QAS) is a direct marketer of point-of-care and self-testing diagnostic products. It distributes easy-to-use diagnostic kits directly to consumers' homes, as well as to health professionals and home health care providers. Its products include anticoagulation tests, cholesterol tests, and other products that monitor and diagnose such conditions as blood pressure, diabetes, lung function, and infectious diseases. The company also provides telemedicine support, patient management software, insurance verification, and billing services. QAS is a subsidiary of diagnostic products firm Inverness Medical Innovations.

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