MARCO ISLAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that the Life Grand Challenges Contest, initially introduced in December 2010, is expanding to include a fourth challenge. This latest contest challenges scientists to sequence the genome and all RNA content derived from a single cancer cell using the 5500 Series SOLiD™ Sequencers. The challenge builds upon research, which will be presented at the annual 2011 Advances in Genome Biology & Technology (AGBT) Meeting, demonstrating the sequencing of the transcriptome of a single mouse cell on a SOLiD system.
