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PerkinElmer Focusing on Life Sciences, Diagnostics as it Divests Other Businesses
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The company is selling its applied, food, and enterprise services to New Mountain Capital for $2.45 billion in cash.

Novacyt to Sell Cytology, Clinical Lab Units

The company said it will sell off the businesses in order to focus on in vitro diagnostic product development and its diagnostic reagent units.

Rosetta Genomics Inks Deal to Sell PersonalizeDx for $2.9M

Rosetta acquired PersonalizeDx and its range of molecular diagnostic offerings in early 2015 for $2 million in cash plus stock.

Hologic Completes Divestiture of Grifols for $1.85B

Hologic's CEO said in December that the blood screening business was a drag on the company's growth. 

PerkinElmer Sells Medical Imaging Business for $276M

The company said the divestiture to Varian Medical Systems would allow it to concentrate on investing in high-growth parts of its business.

Dec 14, 2016

Hologic to Divest Stake in Blood Screening Business to Grifols for $1.85B

Jan 11, 2016

Sequenom Reports Prelim 2015 Earnings Below Analyst Estimates

Jan 7, 2016

Sequenom to Cut 20 Percent of Workforce, Divest North Carolina Lab

Dec 1, 2015

Transgenomic Completes Sale of GAP Business Unit

Nov 2, 2015

PDI to Sell Commercial Services Business, Focus on Molecular Diagnostics

Sep 9, 2015

Transgenomic Sells Ion Chromatography Assets for $2.1M

Jul 23, 2014

Bruker Selling, Restructuring Parts of CAM; 200 to 250 Layoffs Expected

Jun 2, 2014

Sequenom Sells Bioscience Business to Agena for $31.8M

Jan 31, 2014

FTC Says Sale of Certain Thermo Fisher Assets to GE Healthcare is Required for Life Tech Deal OK

Jul 2, 2013

Protagen Sells Protein Services Subsidiary in Shift Toward Focus on Dx Development

Jan 4, 2013

Hologic Selling LifeCodes Business to Immucor for up to $95M

Jan 3, 2013

SeraCare Divests Biorepository, Biobanking Businesses

Dec 31, 2012

Quest Diagnostics Divests OralDNA Labs

Dec 13, 2012

Affy's eBioscience Divests Western Blot Product Line

Oct 25, 2012

Warnex Sells Bioanalytical Business to Biotrial; Active Operations Winding Down

Oct 24, 2012

Thermo Fisher Sells Lab Workstations Business to OpenGate

Jun 29, 2012

Thermo Fisher to Sell Lab Workstations Business

Apr 25, 2012

Warnex Completes Sale of Analytical Services Division to Neopharm

Jan 4, 2012

Auction of Gene Logic Assets Set for Later This Month

Dec 20, 2011

Warnex to Sell Analytical Services Division

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Sick Newborns Selected for WGS With Automated Pipeline

Researchers successfully prioritized infants with potential Mendelian conditions for whole-genome sequencing or rapid whole-genome sequencing, as they report in Genome Medicine.

Acne-Linked Loci Found Through GWAS Meta-Analysis

Researchers in the European Journal of Human Genetics find new and known acne vulgaris risk loci with a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis, highlighting hair follicle- and metabolic disease-related genes.

Retina Cell Loss Reversed by Prime Editing in Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa

A team from China turns to prime editing to correct a retinitis pigmentosa-causing mutation in the PDE6b gene in a mouse model of the progressive photoreceptor loss condition in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.

CRISPR Screens Reveal Heart Attack-Linked Gene

Researchers in PLOS Genetics have used CRISPR screens to home in on variants associated with coronary artery disease that affect vascular endothelial function.