Over 90 years’ experience focused solely on Biomaterial services and management
Largest, most diverse collection of standardized biological materials.
Scale production from several vials up to 1000s of vials
Extract, produce and purify related biologicals such as quantitated nucleic acids, and provide alternative formats such as cell pellets, FFPE samples and inactivated microbial strains
Customized laboratories, including BSL-3 containment facilities
Fill and finish both small and large-scale cell line production
Global reach to 150 countries and a network of distribution partners
CELLS AND MICROORGANISMS For more than 85 years, ATCC has been a leading provider of biological materials and standards for the life sciences community. We have the largest, most diverse collection of biological and microbiological materials and cell lines with characteristics that are vital to the advancement of scientific research and development. The ATCC® Standards Development Organization (SDO) is a developer and publisher of stakeholder-proposed, industry-relevant, national consensus standards for biomaterials and related processes. In 2007 the ATCC SDO became the first biological resource organization to become an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited SDO. ANSI accreditation ensures that procedures used by standards developers meet requirements for openness, balance, consensus and due process and that voluntary consensus standards produced are compatible with requirements of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The Consensus Standards Partnership (CSP) is the formal standard-developing and consensus body of the ATCC SDO. Its membership is open to all stakeholders in the biomaterials community, those involved in the production, application and regulation of life science products Stakeholders include, but are not limited to, contractors, scientists and researchers from the academic, government, military, regulatory and industry sectors. All CSP members are participants in the consensus review, comment and voting process. The ATCC SDO published its first voluntary consensus standard, ANSI/ATCC ASN-0001.1-2015 Standardization of in vitro Assays to Determine Anthrax Toxin Activities; available electronically through the ANSI eStandards Store. The ATCC SDO published its second voluntary consensus standard, ANSI/ATCC ASN-0002: Authentication of Human Cell Lines: Standardization of STR Profiling. Also available electronically through the ANSI eStandards Store. The ATCC SDO has recently published its third voluntary consensus standard, ANSI/ATCC ASN-0003-2015 Species-Level Identification of Animal Cells through Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) DNA Barcodes; and this too is available electronically through the ANSI eStandards Store.