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Qiagen Buys Sequencing Firm

by Marc S. Reisch
July 2, 2012 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 90, Issue 27

Qiagen, a Hilden, Germany-based maker of sample preparation and assay technologies, has purchased Intelligent Bio-Systems, a privately held maker of genetic-sequencing equipment. Financial details were not disclosed. Founded in 2005, Waltham, Mass.-based IBS holds the license to the sequencing-by-synthesis technology developed by Columbia University scientist Jingyue Ju. Qiagen says the acquisition will help it establish next-generation sequencing technology in clinical research and molecular diagnostics.

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