FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced a new family of real-time PCR reagent kits that enable researchers to more rapidly perform cell-based gene expression research. The TaqMan® Cells-to-CT™ Kit solutions are chemical reagents that are designed to reduce the amount of time that is typically necessary to prepare and analyze RNA from cultured cells using real-time PCR in applications such as siRNA-mediated gene silencing and microRNA analysis.