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Lifecodes Corporation
 PROFILE
Lifecodes scans the bar codes that make you who you are. The company provides such DNA testing services as paternity testing, forensic identification, and transplant-compatibility testing. The company also makes DNA testing products, including reagents and DNA probes, which are sold as standardized test kits. Subsidiary Cellmark Diagnostics provides forensic DNA identification and expert DNA testimony in criminal cases nationwide (its tests led to the first criminal conviction using DNA evidence in the US). Lifecodes' transplant tests identify genetic sequencing in DNA to check compatibility between bone marrow or organ donors and transplant recipients. The firm operates in North America and Europe.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: September
1999 Sales (mil.): 31.30
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 37.4%
Employees: 189
Revenue per employee: $165,608.47

 KEY PEOPLE
• Walter O. Fredericks
    CEO
• Michael E. Spicer
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
550 West Ave.
Stamford, CT 06902
US
Phone: 203-328-9500
Fax: 203-328-9599
Online: Web Site

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