Diagnostic Products Corp.'s Contrarian Bet

DPC has successfully transformed itself from a reagent to a systems company and carved out a niche in immunoassay systems, but has it gone as far as it can on its own in a consolidating industry that favors breadth of product lines across lab segments?

by Wendy Diller

Diagnostic Products Corp. is located down the road from the Los Angeles International Airport in an unassuming spread-out maze...

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