APPAN Life Science
Technologies
Index™
- Breaking News:
December 21, 2010: Market Biosciences Corp. (algae-derived nutrional
supplements for infant formulas) acquired by Royal DSM (world's largest
producer of vitamins) for $1.09 Billion.
- Breaking News: November 29, 2010: GeneGo (pathway analysis software) acquired by Thomson Reuters - Financial Terms - Undisclosed.
- October 26, 2010: Pacific Biosciences completes IPO (PACB), raising $200M, with Market Cap = $800M.
- October 7, 2010: MorphoSys acquires Sloning BioTechnology
for $26.5M (GenomeWeb)
- October 7, 2010: Life Technologies acquires Ion Torrent
(DNA sequencing) for up to $724M (MarketWatch)
- August 14, 2010: Corning acquires Plaslab SAS (French
plastic-labware maker) (MarketWatch)
- August 13, 2010: OriGene acquires Blue Hearon (Gene
Synthesis Firm) (Washington
Business Journal)
- May 28, 2010: Life Technologies acquires majority stake
(74%) of Geneart (Synthetic Genes) (GenomeWeb)
- May 15, 2010: Agilent
Technologies completes acquisition
of Varian, Inc.
- Agilent divests MicroGas
Chromatography Instruments to Inficon
Holding AG (IFCN).
- Varian divests to Bruker
Corp. (BRKR)
- Triple-quadrupole gas
chromatography mass spectrometry
instruments product line
- Inductively coupled
plasma-mass spectrometry instruments
product line.
- March 16, 2010:
Sigma-Aldrich Acquires Ace Animals, Inc. (Rodent
Breeder: Sigma Advanced Genetic Engineering: SAGE Labs)
- February 28, 2010: Merck
buys Millipore for $7.2 billion. (MarketWatch)
- February 2, 2010: Thermo
Fisher acquires Finnzymes. (MarketWatch)
- November 9, 2009: QIAGEN
acquires SABiosciences for $90M
- October 19, 2010: OriGene acquires Marligen Biosciences
(DNA & RNA purification kit manufacturer). (GenomeWeb)
- June 12,
2008: Applied Biosystems (of the Applera Group)
will
merge with
Invitrogen –
Renamed as: Life
Technologies Corporation
- July 2008: QIAGEN
acquires Corbett Life Science.
- July
28, 2008: Waters Corporation acquires VTI
Corporation.
- July 18, 2007: QIAGEN
acquires Digene Corporation
Life
Science Companies by Acquisition
- Agilent
- Life Technologies
- Applied Biosystems
- Invitrogen
- GE (GE Healthcare)
- Merck
- QIAGEN
- SABiosciences (SuperArray)
- Digene
- Corbett Life Science
- Thermo Scientific
- Thermo Electron
- Fisher Scientific
- Finnzymes
- NanoDrop
- Neomarkers / Labvision
- Thomson Reuters
- Greiner Bio-One
- Sigma-Aldrich
- Taconic
- Waters Corporation
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