LI-COR Biosciences, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets instruments, software, reagents, and integrated systems for plant biology, biotechnology, life sciences, drug discovery, and environmental research customers. Its products include imaging systems, such as fluorescence and animal imaging systems, and DNA analysis systems; and blot reagents, including in-cell reagents, protease assay reagents, IRDye reagents, genomics reagents, animal imaging agents, optical imaging reagents, and other reagents. The company also provides accessories, such as blotting systems, protein gels, organ tray bases and disposable organ trays, imaging software and beds, docking stations, clean boxes, anesthesia systems, imaging carts, injection clips, imaging blankets, surgical suites, gel apparatus accessories, and gel loading syringes and needles. It offers products for various research areas, which include photosynthesis, leaf area meters, DNA analysis, CO2/H2O/CH4 analysis, molecular imaging, light measurement, blot analysis, soil CO2 flux, and in vivo imaging, as well as for undergraduate education in environmental and biological sciences. It offers its products through a network of distributors worldwide. The company was formerly known as Lambda Instruments Corporation and changed its name to LI-COR Biosciences, Inc. in 1978. LI-COR Biosciences, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska with subsidiaries and offices in Germany and the United Kingdom. It also has locations in the United States, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom
