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Agilent buys capillary electrophoresis expert

by Marc S. Reisch
March 12, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 11

Agilent Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Advanced Analytical Technologies, a capillary electrophoresis expert, for $250 million. Buying the Iowa State University spin-off, Agilent says, will give it a leg up in the market for a widely used separation technique to analyze nucleic acids. Advanced Analytical also brings an alliance with next-generation gene sequencing leader Illumina, providing Agilent with “the broadest market share position in the NGS library quality control space,” points out Leerink Research analyst Puneet Souda.

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