New England Biolabs, Inc. (NEB) is an American life sciences company which produces and supplies recombinant and native enzyme reagents for life science research.[2] It also provides products and services supporting genome editing, synthetic biology and next-generation sequencing.[3] NEB also provides free access to research tools such as REBASE, InBASE, and Polbase.
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The company was founded in 1974 by Donald "Don" Comb, a Harvard Medical School professor, as a cooperative laboratory of experienced scientists and initially produced restriction enzymes on a commercial scale.[4] Comb held the CEO title until 2005 when, at 78 years old, he moved from management back into research at the firm.[5]
NEB received approximately $1.7 million in Small Business Innovation Research