No, it’s not the backdrop of a 1960s spy movie, but the origin of HyClone Laboratories definitely has plot twists! It starts in 1967 when Dr. Rex Spendlove, then a professor at Utah State University, was studying a viral disease that was fatal to children. Integral to his research was fetal bovine serum (FBS), which at the time, was so poor that Dr. Spendlove was forced to develop his own methods to produce a quality serum. The end result was the formation of HyClone, which pioneered many of the serum collection, filtration, and processing techniques used by cell culture product manufactures.