China Biotech In Review Charles River Labs Buys China’s Vital River

Posted: November 3rd, 2012  |  Company/topic: Charles River
Website: Bioportfolio Latest News
By ChinaBio Today Deals and TransactionsCharles River Labs NYSE CRL the global CRO will pay $27 million to acquire a 75 stake in Vital River the largest supplier of laboratory animals in China see…
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BGI contributes sequencing and bioinformatics expertise to international 1000 Genomes research

Posted: October 30th, 2012  |  Company/topic: BGI
Website: EurekAlert! - Breaking News
BGI, the world's largest genomics organizations, announced today it is among 101 research organizations comprising the 1000 Genomes Project Consortium that has successfully constructed an integrated m…
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Ann Arbor’s Compendia Bioscience Acquired by Life Technologies

Posted: October 9th, 2012  |  Company/topic: Life Technologies
Website: Xconomy Life Sciences
Sarah Schmid Compendia Bioscience, an Ann Arbor, MI, startup spun out of technology developed at the University of Michigan, announced today that it has been acquired by California-based Life Techno…
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Complete Genomics Sold to BGI-Shenzhen for $117.6M

Posted: September 17th, 2012  |  Company/topic: Genomics
Website: Xconomy Life Sciences
Luke Timmerman Complete Genomics has been looking for a life raft the past few months as its cash ran low. Today it got what it was looking for from BGI-Shenzhen, the Chinese genome sequencing opera…
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