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Cell Culture Bottle
GIBCO® (originally standing for Grand Island Biological Company) is one of the worlds leading manufacturing organizations for cell culture media, sera and reagents for industrial and academic institutions. The company was originally started in 1962 by Bob and Earline Ferguson as a tissue culture media company in the garage of their home in Grand Island, NY. In the early days, the Ferguson's started their business by selling serum harvested from their own horses on their land.
In 1983, GIBCO® merged with Bethesda Research Laboratories (BRL) to form the original Life Technologies, Inc. producing all media and reagents under the brand GIBCO BRL®. In the year 2000, Life Technologies was acquired by the Invitrogen™ Corp. which began selling cell culture media, sera and reagents again under the GIBCO® Brand. Today, GIBCO® is again part of the newly formed Life Technologies (2008) but it's manufacturing is still based in Grand Island, NY.
Life Technologies currently has cell culture manufacturing facilities in Grand Island, NY, USA; Paisley, Scotland, UK; and Auckland, New Zealand and are ISO-9001 certified and compliant with guidelines established by the FDA's Quality Systems.
Throughout the years, GIBCO® has focused on innovation and holds patents on several products and technologies such as the production of dry powder media in the early 1960's, the development of chemically defined media in the 1990's and the [launch of a redesigned media bottle in 2008]. [1]
