Foodborne pathogen testing is one of the fastest-growing segments of the real-time PCR (qPCR) market. Participants in the market include both qPCR instrument and reagent providers, including Bio-Rad Laboratories, Life Technologies and Roche, as well as companies that specialize in products for food testing, such as BIOTECON, Congen and DuPont Qualicon. Earlier this year, both […]
In what continues to be a busy acquisition period, another set of publicly held analytical instrument companies is set to become one. On September 8, PerkinElmer announced an agreement to acquire Caliper Life Sciences for an estimated $600 million in cash (see page 2). The companies’ complementary product lines and end-markets are a logical combination, […]
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