MicroAnalytica, LLC is a subsidiary of Tetra, Inc. a Florida S-corporation. MicroAnalytica is the technology arm of Tetra, providing a broad base of highly specialized laboratory services. The intellectual resources of MicroAnalytica consist of PhD’s, MD’s, and experienced laboratory professionals who are the leaders in their field.

MicroAnalytica clients typically fall into two categories;

• Research organizations needing development of routine procedures to be utilized in specific applications.
• Companies, hospitals, institutions, and government agencies utilizing the highly specialized products offered by MicroAnalytica.

MicroAnalytica prides itself on being DEPENDABLE. Products and services are provided within promised time frames.

MicroAnalytica understands CONFIDENTIALITY. The chain of information is held in strict confidence between MicroAnalytica and its clients. Projects are initiated with clear and contractual understanding of who owns intellectual property. All results are considered the proprietary property of the client.

MicroAnalytica’s goal is to PROVIDE SOLUTIONS. If we can’t already do it, we’ll assess our capabilities and access all available resources in a best effort to provide a solution.

Darden Hood Founder

Courteous and professional customer care. Quality results and solutions. Consistent accuracy, delivered on-time. “I am completely inflexible on these three requirements. I expect you to demand them, and we will provide them.”

About the Founder,

Darden Hood was born in 1958 in Norfolk, Virginia. His family moved to Baltimore Maryland shortly afterwards where he lived throughout his teenage years. At age 18 he attended Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida where he determined geology was his field of choice. While there he was active in the student body and served as a resident hall assistant. He moved to Miami, Florida in 1978 where he pursued his geology degree while working as a laboratory teaching assistant and later as a technician in a radiocarbon dating laboratory. He earned is BS in Geology from the University of Miami in 1982 and has subsequently been a Licensed Professional Geologist since the inception of the State licensing program in Florida.

In 1980, while pursuing a Masters degree in mineralogy, he helped establish Beta Analytic Inc, the world’s first professional radiocarbon dating laboratory to offer a guaranteed delivery time within 30 days. His responsibility was to spear head R&D and operations management such that demand never exceeded laboratory capabilities. Beta immediately became, and remains today, the largest professional radiocarbon dating laboratory in the world. After taking on the position of President in 1995, Mr. Hoods innovative technologies and management philosophies resulted in the years of greatest growth, profitability, and overhead reductions.

Mr. Hood has an entrepreneurial passion. In the early 1980s he ran Hood Research, Inc., a company that manufactured and assembled alcohol test kits for a local Miami firm. In the 1990s he presided over BIOCAMS International, Inc. a biomedical graphite production facility for the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also presided over Global Pathways, Inc., a company that interfaced new US technology companies with Japanese industrialists such as Mitsubishi, Marubeni and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph. In 2000 he co-founded PaleoScience Inc, a stable carbon and nitrogen isotope laboratory which has analyzed over 20,000 samples since it’s inception. That same company also represented the first professional paleo-DNA laboratory. Mr. Hood took over the DNA division in 2002 under restructuring and incorporated it as a division within an evolving infrastructure of specialty laboratory services, now run under the organization of MicroAnalytica, LLC. Today MicroAnalytica also includes a first-of-its-kind web interfaced video scanning electron microscopy facility (VideoEM TM) and protein identification applications utilized in forensic investigations. It also includes a list of evolving services and research design contracts.

While active in the development of new laboratory techniques and services, Mr. Hood became an expert in engineering new procedures designed for rapid, high-throughput capabilities. The wide array of academic, industrial, and governmental agencies with which he has engaged has also made him an expert in the interface between science, business, and government policy. He understands dependability, reasonable cost and the political environment associated in working with government agencies.

In 2004 Mr. Hood joined the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) to co-committee construct the working standard needed by the USDA for the determination of biobased content in manufactured products using radiocarbon dating. (ASTM Method D6866-04a) He is the author of the Guidance Document associated with that method and acts as on-going interface with the USDA in the implementation of the method.

Mr. Hood has two decades of experience working in the professional science and technology industries, both domestically and internationally. This experience has provided him with the skills and insights needed to effectively manage and implement specialty applications needed by industry, academia, and government agencies worldwide.