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New Gene Therapy Trials Aim to Mend Broken Hearts

30.04.2013 - British scientists are stepping up clinical tests of gene therapy in a bid to help people with advanced heart failure pump blood more efficiently. Researchers said on Tuesday they...

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Thermo Fisher Profit up as Life Tech awaits

25.04.2013 - Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific, which this month agreed to acquire Life Technologies for more than $13 billion, on Wednesday reported a higher-than-expected...

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Thermo Fisher takes over Life Technologies for $13.6 Billion

15.04.2013 - Life Technologies has accepted a $13.6 billion cash buyout proposal from scientific and laboratory instruments company Thermo Fisher Scientific in one of the year's biggest...

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New Technology Speeding Progress on Bird Flu Vaccine

13.04.2013 - Even as U.S. officials this week awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed...

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Thermo Bids for Life Tech

10.04.2013 - Thermo Fisher Scientific made a binding offer for Life Technologies on Tuesday as private equity firms raced to finalize a consortium to take the genetic testing equipment maker...

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Life Technologies Sale Process Cools

20.02.2013 - An $11 billion-plus sale of Life Technologies is looking less likely as a gap in price expectations with the company has left potential buyer Thermo Fisher Scientific skeptical...

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Thermo Fisher Weighs Life Tech Takeover

30.01.2013 - Thermo Fisher Scientific is considering making an offer for Life Technologies, the biomedical laboratory equipment maker that is exploring a potential sale, three people familiar...

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Life Tech Exploring Potential Sale

18.01.2013 - Life Technologies is exploring a potential sale and has retained banks to advise on the process, sending shares of the biotechnology company 11% higher to an all-time high on...