Takara Bio — a world leader in biotechnology research and development based out of Shiga, Japan — develops, manufactures, and distributes a wide range of life science reagents under the Takara, Cellartis, and Clontech brands. Takara Bio’s products support applications including stem cell research, next-generation sequencing, gene discovery, regulation and functional studies, protein expression and purification, RNAi, and gene editing. As a CMO, they provide GMP manufacturing for CGT segments such as plasmid vectors, mRNA, and viral vectors, as well as providing cell banking and quality testing.