Headquartered in Hopkinton, MA with R&D, operations and manufacturing facilities for LabChip® devices in Mountain View, CA. Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. had been a research tools company engaged in the sale of innovative and enabling products, services, and systems to academic, government and and biotech/pharmaceutical researchers worldwide. In February 2003, Caliper Technologies had been acquired by LB Acquisitions LLC. and was later acquired a second time in September 2011 by PerkinElmer. Caliper Life Sciences had provided molecular solutions for preclinical imaging as well as in vitro research and diagnostics. Products and services, assembled from a portfolio of microfluidics, automation, liquid handling, and molecular imaging technologies, addresses various pre-clinical drug discovery and development bottlenecks included LabChip drug discovery, profiling and separations systems; IVIS noninvasive imaging systems, reagents and animal models; and automation and liquid handling systems. The company also offered contract research and transgenic animal services, drug discovery and development services, product support, and validation services.
