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Merck KGaA operates in three main segments: Life Science, Electronics, and Healthcare. The Life Science segment provides laboratory consumables and instruments to researchers in academia and applied fields, including the biopharmaceutical industry. The Electronics segment offers specialty materials to manufacture a variety of products, such as semiconductors and flat-screen televisions. In the healthcare segment, Merck develops, manufactures, and sells branded pharmaceuticals with significant therapeutic concentrations in oncology, multiple sclerosis, and fertility. In 1995, the E. Merck KG family publicly sold part of the company, resulting in the current 30% public ownership of the firm.

Illumina provides tools and services to analyze genetic material with life science and clinical lab applications. The company generates over 90% of its revenue from sequencing instruments, consumables, and services. Illumina’s high-throughput technology enables whole genome sequencing in humans and other large organisms. Its lower throughput tools enable applications that require smaller data outputs, such as viral and cancer tumor screening. Illumina also sells microarrays (9% of 2024 sales) that enable lower-cost, focused genetic screening with primarily consumer and agricultural applications.

Sartorius AG is a leading provider of bioprocessing solutions. Its bioprocess division sells equipment and consumables for upstream and downstream manufacturing of biologic drugs, and has a focus on single-use technology. Its laboratory products and services division offers a wide range of products for laboratory use, including scales, pipettes, and filtration equipment. As of 2024, the bioprocess and LPS divisions contributed 80% and 20% of revenue, respectively. Bioprocess is housed in its subsidiary Sartorius Stedim Biotech, of which Sartorius AG has a 72% ownership and 83% voting control. The business is geographically diverse, with revenue across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (41% of 2024 sales), the Americas (36%), and Asia-Pacific (23%). We estimate China revenue to be around 10%.

Demant is a Denmark-based manufacturer and distributor of hearing solutions, such as hearing aid devices and diagnostic equipment. More than 80% of the company's sales come from North America and Europe.

Based in Minnesota, Bio-Techne is a life sciences manufacturer supplying consumables and instruments for the pharma, biotech, academic, and diagnostic markets. It reports in two segments: protein sciences (about 75% of revenue) and diagnostics and genomics (25%). The protein sciences segment sells reagents and analytical instruments used in life sciences research, including antibodies used in protein analysis. The diagnostics and genomics segment sells diagnostic reagents, molecular diagnostics, and spatial biology products. The United States accounts for about 55% of revenue. The firm also has operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (20% of sales), the UK (5%), and Asia-Pacific (15%), with the rest of the world accounting for the remaining 5%.

BillionToOne Inc is a precision diagnostics company revolutionizing molecular testing with its patented Quantitative Counting Templates (QCT) platform. This technology enables ultrasensitive, single-molecule DNA quantification, making genetic testing more accurate, affordable, and accessible. The company serves prenatal screening and oncology markets with non-invasive tests that detect fetal genetic risks and monitor cancer therapy response.

10x Genomics Inc is a life science technology company based in the United States. Its solutions include instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems. The company's integrated solutions include instruments, consumables, and software for analyzing biological systems at a resolution and scale that matches the complexity of biology. Its product offerings include a Chromium platform comprising microfluidic chips and related consumables, Chromium X series, Visium and Xenium platforms, and others, which are predominantly used for the study of biological components. Geographically, the company derives operates from the United States and the rest from Americas (excluding the United States), Europe, Middle East and Africa, China, and Asia-Pacific (excluding China).

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp is a company advancing the field of immune-driven medicine by harnessing the inherent biology of the adaptive immune system to transform the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Its clinical diagnostic product, clonoSEQ, is test authorized by the FDA for the detection and monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD) in patients with multiple myeloma (MM), B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and is also available as a CLIA-validated laboratory developed test (LDT) for patients with other lymphoid cancers, including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).

Syngene International Ltd is a contract research and manufacturing organization in India. It supports research and development programs, from lead generation to clinical and commercial supplies. The Company is engaged in a single operating segment of providing contract research and manufacturing services. The company operates in India, the United States of America and other countries, of which a majority of the revenue is derived from the USA. The company receives revenue by providing contract research and manufacturing services. It offers services such as Oligonucleotide synthesis, Bioinformatics, Clinical development services, polymer research, chemical development, safety assessment, discovery chemistry, discovery biology, and others.

Generate Biomedicines Inc is a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in biotechnology and drug design and development. The company's single operating segment is engaged in the field of generative biology by using machine learning for drug discovery and development through the programming of novel protein therapeutics. Its product candidates include: GB-0895, GB-4362, and GB-5267. Through the company's Generate Platform, it can generate medicines on demand across multiple therapeutic modalities with unprecedented speed representing a fundamental shift in drug discovery.

Zhongyuan Union Cell & Gene Engineering Corp Ltd is engaged in stem cell technology research, as well as detection and storage sources of stem cells in China. The company insists on the core strategy upon dual-core development of 'cell + gene' with the major businesses covering various cell storage businesses of newborns and adults; the preparation and storage of cord blood hematopoietic stem cells, umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells, placental pluripotent stem cells, adipose-derived stem cells and immune cells; genetic testing services relating to children's genes.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC makes a novel generation of DNA/RNA sequencing technology that provides rich data and is fast, accessible, and easy to use. The company is predominantly involved in researching, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing a nanopore-based sequencing platform that allows the real-time analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA). This enables its customers to perform scientific/biomedical research in a range of areas, including human genetics, cancer research, outbreak surveillance, environmental analysis, pathogens/antimicrobial resistance, microbiome analysis, and crop science. The company's reportable segments are; Life Science Research Tools which generates key revenue, and COVID Testing.

GemPharmatech Co Ltd is a provider of genetically engineered mouse models and services to preclinical research and development communities. The company develops mouse models with independent intellectual property rights based on technical platforms such as gene editing, stem cells, phenotypic analysis, efficacy analysis, and sterile animals, and carries out one-stop services such as model customization, customized breeding, and functional efficacy analysis.

Suzhou Sepax Technologies Co Ltd is engaged in the Research, development and produce liquid chromatography materials for drug analysis, detection, separation and purification.

Nanjing Vazyme Biotech Co Ltd is a biotechnology company. It is committed to research and development both in technology and products focusing on functional proteins, such as enzymes, antigens, antibodies, and polymer organic materials.

Absci Corp is the Artificial intelligence powered synthetic biology company unlocking the potential of proteins as the next generation of therapeutics. It enables the creation of novel biologics by unifying biologic drug discovery and cell line development into one simultaneous process.

Takara Bio Inc is a biotechnology company that develops gene therapy procedures. The company reports in three business segments: Bioindustry, Gene therapy, and AgriBio. Takara's bioindustry business provides research reagents, scientific instruments, and various contracted services to universities and companies around the world. The company's gene therapy business is focused on treating cancer and HIV. Its AgriBio business aims to leverage biotechnologies in the food ingredient field, including large-scale mushroom production. The vast majority of Takara's revenue is derived from its bioindustry segment.

CryoPort Inc is a leader serving the life sciences industry as a provider of integrated temperature-controlled supply chain solutions supporting the life sciences in the biopharma/pharma, animal health, and reproductive medicine markets. It operates in two reportable segments: Life Sciences Services and Life Sciences Products. Geographically the company operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC), generating a majority of its revenue from the Americas.

Personalis Inc is a provider of genomic sequencing and analytics solutions to support the development of personalized cancer vaccines and other next-generation cancer immunotherapies. It has one segment, the sale of sequencing and data analysis services. Its products include ImmunoID NeXT, NeXT Personal, NeXT Dx Test, and other pharma research solutions.

Eikon Therapeutics Inc is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company dedicated to building a world-wide , fully-integrated organization developing important, medicines to address serious unmet medical needs. It operates in a single operating segment, which is in the business of drug discovery leveraging its proprietary technology and clinical development of its product candidates. Its product candidates include: EIK1001, EIK1003, EIK1004, EIK1005, and EIK1006.

Avacta Group PLC is a clinical-stage life sciences company expanding the reach of potent cancer therapies with the pre-CISION platform. pre-CISION is a proprietary warhead delivery system based on a tumor-specific protease (fibroblast activation protein or FAP) that is designed to concentrate potent warheads in the tumor microenvironment while sparing normal tissues. The company's pipeline consists of pre-CISION peptide drug conjugates (PDC) or Affimer drug conjugates (AffDC) that leverage the tumor-specific release mechanism, providing benefits over traditional antibody drug conjugates. The firm has one reportable segment, Therapeutics, which is engaged in the development of novel cancer therapies harnessing its proprietary technology. Geographically, it derives revenue from South Korea.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc is a biotechnology company focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing sequencing solutions that enable scientists and clinical researchers to improve their understanding of the genome and ultimately, resolve genetically complex problems. It operates in, one reportable segment: the development, manufacturing, and marketing of an integrated platform for genetic analysis. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from Americas, followed by Asia-Pacific and Europe Middle East, and Africa.

Nautilus Biotechnology Inc is a development stage life sciences company creating a platform technology for quantifying and unlocking the complexity of the human proteome. The Company transform the field of proteomics by democratizing access to the proteome and enabling fundamental advancements across human health and medicine. Company's products includes: Proteome Analysis System, Reagent Kits, Software and analysis.

Genomictree Inc is a molecular diagnostic company. It is engaged in developing technologies that satisfies the unmet needs of the healthcare market.

OmniAb Inc offers therapeutic antibody discovery technologies. It focuses on enabling the rapid development of therapeutics by pushing the frontiers of drug discovery technologies. Its technology platform is designed to enable the efficient discovery of high-quality, fully human antibodies for a wide range of diseases. The heart of the OmniAb technology platform is the Biological Intelligence of its proprietary transgenic animals, including OmniRat, OmniMouse, and OmniChicken, that have been genetically modified to generate antibodies with human sequences which are naturally optimized through in vivo affinity maturation.

Alpha Teknova Inc provides critical reagents that enable the discovery, development, and production of biopharmaceutical products such as drug therapies, novel vaccines, and molecular diagnostics. Its offer three product types: pre-poured media plates for cell growth and cloning; liquid cell culture media and supplements for cellular expansion; and molecular biology reagents for sample manipulation, resuspension, and purification. It derives key revenue from United States.

Diaceutics PLC is a data analytics and implementation services company that services the pharmaceutical industry. It provides the pharma and biotech companies with an end-to-end commercialization solution for the launch of precision medicine, enabled by DXRX The Diagnostic Network. DXRX is the diagnostic commercialization platform designed specifically for precision medicine, integrating multiple pipelines of real-world, real-time diagnostic testing data from a network of labs. These solutions are helping the pharma companies commercialize their precision medicines, enhance their return on investment and ultimately improve patients' lives. Geographically, it operates in UK, North America, Europe, and Asia and Rest of World.

Quantum-Si Inc is a life sciences company focused on the development and commercialization of proteomics research tools. The company has designed and developed a hardware, consumable, and software solution to provide a solution for protein detection and analysis. It has developed a proprietary universal single-molecule detection platform that enables Next-Generation Protein Sequencing (NGPS), the ability to sequence proteins.

Korro Bio Inc is a biopharmaceutical company with a mission to discover, develop, and commercialize a new class of genetic medicines based on editing RNA, enabling the treatment of both rare and highly prevalent diseases. It is generating a portfolio of differentiated programs that are designed to harness the body’s natural RNA editing process to effect a precise yet transient single base edit. By editing RNA instead of DNA, Korro Bio is expanding the reach of genetic medicines by delivering additional precision and tunability.

Bioventix PLC is a biotechnology company based in the United Kingdom. It specializes in the creation and supply of high-affinity sheep monoclonal antibodies and clinical diagnostics and drug abuse testing. The company's portfolio of products includes drugs that are applicable in the areas of cardiology, fertility, infectious diseases, Thyroid, and vitamin D disorder among others. It earns maximum revenue from European country.

SDI Group PLC designs and manufactures scientific and technology products for use by the life science, healthcare, astronomy, consumer manufacturing, and art conservation markets through Synoptics, the Artemis, the Opus instruments, and Astles Control systems brands. The Digital Imaging segment incorporates the Synoptics brands Syngene, Synbiosis, Synoptics Health and Fistreem, the Atik brands Atik Cameras, Opus, and Quantum Scientific Imaging, and the Graticules Optics business. The Sensors & Control segment combines Sentek, Astles Control Systems, Applied Thermal Control, Thermal Exchange, MPB Industries, and Chell Instruments businesses. It operates in the UK, Europe, America, Rest of Asia, and Rest of the world segments. It derives majority of its revenues from the United Kingdom.

Vitrafy Life Sciences Ltd developed a range of proprietary smart cryopreservation hardware devices and Lifechain, an integrated, cloud-based software platform, to provide a complete, vertically integrated cryopreservation solution to retain the quality of cryopreserved biomaterials. The company devices includes Vitrafy’s Smart Cryopreservation Device; Vitrafy’s Smart Thawing Device and Vitrafy’s Smart Packaging.

ArcticZymes Technologies ASA is a biotechnology company. The company is engaged in developing, producing, and marketing immune-modulating beta-glucans and novel recombinant enzymes for use in molecular research, In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) and biomanufacturing. The company's products include Woulgan wound gel, Feed Ingredient (M-Glucan), Nutraceuticals (M-Gard), Recombinant enzymes, and others. The company reports in two operating segments, Enzymes and Corporate. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the USA followed by Lithuania, Germany, Italy, France, and other countries.

Pacific Edge Ltd is a NewZealand based company involved in developing and commercializing diagnostic and prognostic tools for the early detection and management of cancers. It manages and operates the laboratories used for the detection of bladder cancer. The company operates in two segments: Commercial, which includes sales, marketing, laboratory, and support operations to run the commercial businesses world wide; and Research, which is into research and development of diagnostic and prognostic products for human cancer. The commercial segment contributes to the majority of the revenue. Pacific Edge has a product in the marketplace called Cxbladder. Its geographical segments are the United States, New Zealand, and the Rest of the World.

4basebio PLC is a life sciences group focused on therapeutic DNA for gene therapies and DNA vaccines and providing solutions for effectively and safely delivering these DNA-based products to patients. The company operates across three geographic segments: Europe, the United States, and the Rest of the World, with the majority of its revenue generated from the United States.

Biohit Oyj is a biotechnology company. It manufactures products that bind acetaldehyde, diagnostic products, and systems for diagnostic analysis for the use of research institutions, healthcare, and industry. Biohit's product portfolio consists of diagnostic tests, analysis systems, products that bind carcinogenic acetaldehyde into harmless compounds and monoclonal antibodies and service laboratory operations.

Genoway SA specializes in genetic designs to serve genetically modified (GM) mice, rat and cell lines for the biopharmaceutical industries and research industries.

Bio-Works Technologies AB is a Sweden-based life science company which is engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and supplying products for purification and separation of proteins and other molecules. The product line of the company includes activated resin, immobilized metal-ion affinity chromatography resin, ion exchange chromatography resin, size exclusion chromatography resin and others. The company has also developed affinity chromatography technique, BabyBio Columns, OptiBio glass columns for separating proteins, and protein purification. Bio-Works serves various end users such as academic research laboratories, biopharmaceutical companies, the food and beverage industry and others.

AnteoTech Ltd is a biotechnology company engaged in the development of specialty products and services and end-user diagnostic products focused on the Battery and Life Science diagnostics markets. Its key areas are the Energy and Life Science Division. The company is developing four products named AnteoX, Ultranode, AnteoBind NXT, and AnteoBind these products are used in the energy, diagnostic, and medical device markets. The company currently has a single segment which is the development of the AnteoTech IP.

Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing regenerative-medicine treatments for disorders of the gastrointestinal system and the airway resulting from cancer, trauma, or birth defects. The company's technology is based on its proprietary cell-therapy platform that uses a patient’s stem cells to regenerate and restore function to damaged organs.

Proteomics International Laboratories Ltd is a biological research and drug discovery company. It is a pioneering medical technology company operating at the forefront of predictive diagnostics and precision medicine. The Company specialises in proteomics-the industrial-scale study of the structure and function of proteins. Its pipeline includes Promarker, Pipeline PromarkerD, PromarkerEndo, PromarkerEso, and OxiDx.

Nanologica AB is a Swedish life science tools company that develops, manufactures, and sells key consumables to pharmaceutical manufacturers. Its products are specially developed for the purification of peptide drugs, such as insulin and GLP-1 analogues. Due to effective purification and a long lifetime for the products, it can increase productivity and reduce costs for pharmaceutical manufacturers. The group operates in a world-wide niche market that is growing as a result of increased demand for drugs for the treatment of diabetes and obesity. The company's mission is to increase access to cost-effective drugs through its purification products and thereby contribute to more patients around the world having access to life-saving treatments.