AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Asuragen, Inc. announced today it has been appointed a Certified Service Provider (CSP) by Life Technologies (NASDAQ: LIFE) for Ion Torrent’s Personal Genome Machine (PGM). The Ion Torrent CSP Program is designed to assure customers that Asuragen has been trained and tested by Ion Torrent in the use of its semiconductor sequencing technology to produce high quality sequence data.