private industry research design manufacturing founded 1971 headquarters lincoln ne u.s.a. key people william biggs founder products scientific instruments for biological and environmental research website li cor website li cor biosciences designs manufactures and markets instruments for biological and environmental research . 1 contents 1 origins and history 2 products and applications 2.1 biotechnology 2.2 environmental 3 scientific contributions and recognition 4 references origins and history edit li cor biosciences is a privately held company based in lincoln nebraska with subsidiaries in germany and the united kingdom . it was founded in 1971 under the name lambda instruments corporation . the name was shortened to li cor inc. in 1978 . products and applications edit biotechnology edit the li 7500 right is used to measure co2 and h2o concentrations . li cor biotechnology instruments and reagents which are based on near infrared fluorescent and chemiluminescent detection are used in a large variety of assays such as western blot assays and cell based assays as well as in vivo imaging and dna analysis . primary applications include cancer research 2 drug discovery 3 genomics research 4 neuroscience cell biology and education . environmental edit li cor environmental instruments are used for photosynthesis research 5 greenhouse gas monitoring 6 greenhouse gas flux measurements 7 and soil respiration measurements . 8 9 li cor also manufactures light sensors leaf area meters and plant canopy analyzers 10 all of which are used to make fundamental measurements in disciplines including plant physiology climate change agronomy forestry and agriculture and other areas of the natural sciences . scientific contributions and recognition edit li cor automated dna sequencers were the primary systems used by genoscope the french national sequencing center to sequence chromosome 14 of the human genome project . researchers affiliated with micrometeorological networks around the world use li cor carbon dioxide and water vapor analyzers to assess ecosystem greenhouse gas exchange with the eddy covariance technique . these networks include fluxnet and regional networks such as ameriflux icos and asiaflux . in 2010 the editors of r & d magazine selected the li 7700 open path ch4 analyzer for an r & d 100 award . 11 in 2013 the historic benchmark of increase in co2 concentrations at 400 ppm was reported by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration using li 7000 closed path co2 h2o gas analyzer . 12 the li 6400 6400xt portable photosynthesis system is the most frequently cited photosynthesis system in peer reviewed scientific literature . 13 references edit lincoln based li cor keeps evolving after 45 years as a leader in biosciences . omaha world herald . 2016 01 08 . retrieved 2016 09 07 . li yiwei ; ahmed f. ; ali s. ; philip p. a. ; kucuk o. ; sarkar f. h. 2005 . inactivation of nuclear factor kb by soy isoflavone genistein contributes to increased apoptosis induced by chemotherapeutic agents in human cancer cells . cancer research . 65 6934 6942 . doi 10.1158 0008 5472 . can 04 4604 . li yiwei ; ellis k. l. ; ali s. ; el rayes b. ; nedeljkovic kurepa a. ; kucuk o. ; philip p. a. ; sarkar f. h. 2004 . apoptosis inducing effect of chemotherapeutic agents is potentiated by soy isoflavone genistein a natural inhibitor of nf kappa b in bxpc 3 pancreatic cancer cell line . pancreas . 28 90 95 . liu z. ; attila k. ; ping l. ; dongfeng c. ; dunham r. 2003 . an aflp based genetic linkage map of channel catfish ictalurus punctatus construction by using an interspecific hybrid resource family . genetics . 165 689 694 . bernacchi c. j. ; singsaas e. l. ; pimental c. ; portis jr. ; long s. p. 2004 . improved temperature response functions for models of rubisco limited photosynthesis . plant cell & environment . 24 253 259 . luo y. ; wan s. ; hui d. ; wallace l. l. acclimatization of soil respiration to warming in a tall grass prairie . nature . 413 622 625 . doi 10.1038 35098065 . ohkubo s. ; kosugi y. ; takahashi s. ; mitani t. ; tani m. 2006 . comparison of the eddy covariance and automated closed chamber methods for evaluating nocturnal co2 exchange in japanese cypress forest . agricultural and forest meteorology . 142 50 65 . doi 10.1016 j.agrformet .2006.11.004 . liu w. ; zhang z. ; wan s. 2008 . predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland . global change biology . 15 184 195 . doi 10.1111 j. 1365 2486.2008.01728.x . vargas r. ; allen m. f. 2008 . environmental controls and the influence of vegetation type fine roots and rhizomorphs on diel and seasonal variation in soil respiration . new phytologist . 179 460 471 . doi 10.1111 j. 1469 8137.2008.02481.x . welles j. m. ; cohen s. 1996 . canopy structure measurement by gap fraction analysis using commercial instrumentation . journal of experimental botany . 47 1335 1342 . doi 10.1093 jxb 47.9.1335 . 1 dead link li cor instruments established historic climate news . lincoln journal star . 2013 05 16 . retrieved 2016 09 07 . physiological and genetics section announcement . botany.org . 2007 11 15 . retrieved 2016 09 07 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title li cor biosciences & oldid 738243590 categories companies based in lincoln nebraskainstrument making corporationshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from september 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 19 53 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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