Life Technologies to acquire BioTrove Inc

Posted on: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:53:00 EST


Symbols: LIFE
Nov 11, 2009 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) --
LIFE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Biotechnology tools company Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE)
said on Tuesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to
acquire BioTrove Inc.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

BioTrove's technology is expected to complement Life Technologies'
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) portfolio.

The primary technology of BioTrove is the OpenArray platform, a high
throughput gene expression and genotyping analysis system based on a
flexible array format that enables researchers to perform more than
3,000 PCR genotyping or qPCR gene expression assays at a time.

This acquisition builds on a collaboration formed in 2007 between
BioTrove and Life Technologies' subsidiary Applied Biosystems, in which
Applied Biosystems assumed responsibility for commercialisation of the
OpenArray business for genotyping applications.

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