Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, manufacture, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. The company's Analytical Technologies segment offers instruments, reagents, consumables, software, and services that are used for a range of applications in the laboratory, on the production line, and in the field. Its Specialty Diagnostics segment provides diagnostic test kits, culture media, instruments, and associated products that are used in healthcare, clinical, pharmaceutical, industrial, and food safety laboratories. This segment offers blood-test systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy, asthma, and autoimmune diseases; liquid, ready-to-use, and lyophilized immunodiagnostic reagent kits, calibrators, and controls and calibration verification fluids; dehydrated and prepared culture media, and collection and transport systems; and products for cancer diagnosis and medical research. The company's Laboratory Products and Services segment offers laboratory equipment, including sample preparation and preservation equipment, cold storage equipment, centrifugation products, biological safety cabinets, temperature control products, and other laboratory equipment; laboratory consumables; research and safety market solutions; and biopharma services. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.