Luminex Corporation is a global company that specializes in producing and selling exclusive biological testing technologies and products for the life sciences and diagnostics industries. Its pioneering xMAP technology is an innovative multiplexing technology that permits simultaneous analysis of numerous bioassays from a single drop of fluid by reading biological tests on the surface of microscopic polystyrene beads known as microspheres. Additionally, the company offers MultiCode technology used for real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and multiplexed PCR assays.