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Invitrogen Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN) is a life science research company, providing products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in their efforts to improve the human condition. is gearing up to add a 60,000-square-foot laboratory building to its Molecular Probes Molecular Probes is a biotechnology company located in Eugene, Oregon specializing in fluorescence. The company was founded in 1975 by Richard and Rosaria Haugland in their kitchen in Minnesota, then moved briefly to Texas and finally to Oregon in the early 1980s. campus in west Eugene, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. preliminary plans the company filed with the city this week. The biosciences company, based in Carlsbad, Calif., bought Molecular Probes last year from founders Richard and Rosaria Haugland. Molecular Probes is immediately north of the west Eugene Hynix computer chip factory. Most of Molecular Probes' existing chemistry labs would be moved to the new building, and the new building would have space for future growth, said Gordon Brown, Molecular Probes director of operations. "Our plans call for continued growth," he said. It's unclear whether the company will be adding jobs as it completes the new building. Molecular Probes has been steadily adding employees, many of them research scientists. Earlier this year, general manager Augie Sick said the company anticipated adding about 30 employees in 2004, taking the Eugene head count to 300 employees. Sick was unavailable for comment on Thursday. The new two-story lab building would be north of the two buildings completed in the past few years at Molecular Probes' campus. Plans call for construction to begin in October and to be completed in January 2006. At full build-out, the new building would house 132 lab work stations - about 72 for organic chemistry labs and 60 for biology labs. Invitrogen wants to build a road off Willow Creek Willow Creek may refer to: In Christianity:
Invitrogen's main business is developing and selling chemical kits for analyzing and cloning cloning: see clone. To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software. genes. Molecular Probes develops and produces fluorescent dyes Noun 1. fluorescent dye - a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and that researchers use to track cell functions and activities of genes and proteins. "Molecular Probes is an extremely vital part of our business," Invitrogen spokesman Greg Geissman said. |
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