Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers products and services to customers working in pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies. It operates through the following segments: Life Sciences Solutions, Analytical Instruments, Specialty Diagnostics, and Laboratory Products and Biopharma Services. The Life Sciences Solutions segment provides reagents, instruments and consumables used in biological and medical research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines, and diagnosis of disease. The Analytical Instruments segment offers instruments and supporting consumables, software and services. The Specialty Diagnostics segment provides diagnostic test kits, reagents, culture media, instruments and associated products to healthcare, clinical, pharmaceutical, industrial, and food safety laboratories. The Laboratory Products and Biopharma Services segment offers outsourced services used by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries for drug development, clinical research, clinical trials services and commercial drug manufacturing. The company was founded in July 1956 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.