Press Releases Below are some of the ways that ATCC strives to fulfill this mission. You may contact us with comments or inquiries regarding these announcements. 2012 Releases August 21st 2012 — Corporate Announcement ATCC Now Offers the “Big Six” E. coli Strains for Food Safety Testing Representative strains from all six non-O157 Shiga toxin producing E. coli serogroups are available for use as positive and negative controls for food quality control assays. Agreement with Life Technologies Corporation Allows ATCC to Make Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)-based Materials Available to the Broad Research Community ATCC Annouces Agreements Providing Access to Promega Corporation's NanoLuc™, GloSensor™, and HaloTag® Technologies New MTA and Deposit Policy ATCC U.VA. Collaboration to Foster Biotech Discovery ATCC SDO Releases Ground-Breaking Standard for Human Cell Lines 2011 Releases ATCC Awarded NCI Funding to Establish a Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers (PS-OC) Bioresource Core Facility (PBCF) Promega Partners with ATCC to Offer New Cell Systems for Biologics Drug Discovery ATCC and iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (AJ) Enter into Patent License Agreement to Distribute iPS Cells and iPS Cell-Derived Cells ATCC and Stemgent, Inc. Announce Collaborative Research Agreement to Advance Development of Novel Stem Cell Reagents and Pluripotent Cells