Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides life sciences solutions analytical instruments specialty diagnostics and laboratory products and biopharma services in the North America Europe Asia-Pacific and internationally. The company’s Life Sciences Solutions segment offers reagents instruments and consumables for biological and medical research discovery and production of drugs and vaccines as well as diagnosis of infections and diseases. Its Analytical Instruments segment provides instruments consumables software and services for pharmaceutical biotechnology academic government environmental and other research and industrial markets as well as clinical laboratories. The company’s Specialty Diagnostics segment includes clinical diagnostics offering liquid ready-to-use and lyophilized immunodiagnostic reagent kits as well as calibrators controls protein detection assays and instruments; immunodiagnostics offers develops manufactures and markets complete blood test systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy asthma and autoimmune diseases; microbiology offers dehydrated and prepared culture media collection and transport systems instrumentation and consumables; transplant diagnostics products include human leukocyte antigen typing and testing for organ transplant market; and healthcare market channel offers consumables diagnostic kits and reagents equipment instruments solutions and services. Its Laboratory Products and Biopharma Services segment provides laboratory products research and safety market channel and pharma services and clinical research. It offers products and services through a direct sales force customer-service professionals electronic commerce and third-party distributors under Thermo Scientific; Applied Biosystems; Invitrogen; Fisher Scientific; Unity Lab Services; and Patheon and PPD. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Waltham Massachusetts.