Life sciences involve the study of living organisms, from their molecular and biochemical subsystems to the ecosystems created by the interactions of multiple species. This research over the last 25 years has yielded a dramatic explosion of knowledge in this field, through a combination of conceptual advances and technical breakthroughs. BERTHOLD TECHNOLOGIES has been involved in this tradition for 50 years contributing instruments with outstanding sensitivity.

Today’s understanding of the continuity of life is the fact that the very fundamental elements of life—the genetic material, DNA, and its transcription products, RNA and then proteins—are shared by all organisms from bacteria to yeast, from plants to animals up to humans. Furthermore, living organisms do not share only common molecules but also similar mechanisms of deriving a broad range of functions from the interactions of these molecules.