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Quest Will Acquire Genome Pioneer Celera

by Rick Mullin
March 28, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 13

Quest Diagnostics has agreed to acquire Celera, a genetic diagnostics firm, in a stock deal valued at $344 million. Quest will gain access to Celera’s proprietary genetic tests and its pipeline of biomarkers. The company will also get a cardiovascular testing technology developed by Berkeley HeartLab, a division of Celera. “Our discovery and validation of new biomarkers have exceeded our capacity to commercialize them,” says Celera CEO Kathy Ordoñez in explaining the sale to the larger Quest. Celera was formed in 1998 to sequence the human genome. J. Craig Venter was the firm’s first president.

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