Life Technologies Sets New Worldwide Standard for Criminal Forensic Testing with Introduction of GlobalFiler™ Express Kit

Life Technologies Sets New Worldwide Standard for Criminal Forensic Testing with Introduction of GlobalFiler™ Express Kit PR Newswire CARLSBAD, California, Oct. 1, 2012 -- New kits compare broadest range of genetic data to help labs reduce evidence backlogs faster and solve crimes more cost effectively CARLSBAD, California, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation – (NASDAQ: LIFE) the world's leader in human identification solutions, today launched the GlobalFiler™ Express kit, a new DNA kit that will revolutionize how crime labs perform forensic testing around the world -- making it faster, easier and cheaper to process DNA samples. By increasing the number of genetic markers by over 30% to 24, GlobalFiler™ Express delivers the ability to recover significantly more information from forensic samples and increases discrimination power by up to 9 orders of magnitude. This results in faster and more powerful comparisons of forensic data to resolve crimes. Combined with five times faster processing efficiency, this powerful advancement will enable forensic scientists to solve and prevent more crime while addressing ever-growing backlogs. To date, 44 countries have now implemented criminal offender DNA database programs with a combined offender sample pool of 40 million and growing. "I've been very impressed with GlobalFiler's performance," said Professor Walther Parson, Ph.D., a leading world expert in forensic DNA testing in Innsbruck, Austria.