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UK Regulators Propose Blocking $1.2B Illumina, PacBio Deal

Oct 24, 2019
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NEW YORK – Regulators in the UK have proposed blocking Illumina's $1.2 billion acquisition of Pacific Biosciences in an effort to preserve competition in the sequencing market in that country, as well as globally.

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