NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – In a very busy year for news in the 'omics and molecular diagnostics industries, an article about an acquisition topped the list of the most-read stories for the year on GenomeWeb Daily News, while restructurings, lawsuits, and one firm's IPO plans made it into the top 10.
Here are the top 10 for the year:
1) Life Technologies CEO Defends Price for Ion Torrent, Dismisses Illumina's PCR System
2) Roche Restructuring Plan Includes 4,800 Job Cuts
3) Life Technologies to Acquire Ion Torrent for up to $725M
4) Affymetrix Sues Pacific Biosciences for Hiring Away Employees
5) Illumina Seeks to Solve PCR Reagents Puzzle
6) Federal Court Rules that Myriad's BRCA Patents are Invalid; Deems 'Isolated DNA' Unpatentable
7) More Genetic Test Firms Receive FDA Warnings
8) Applied Biosystems Sues Roche for Breach of Contract
9) Pacific Biosciences Files for IPO
10) Neandertal Genome Points to Human-Neandertal Interbreeding