November 2, 2018 07:52 AM EDT
Pharma

Il­lu­mi­na forks out $1.2B to buy ri­val Pa­cif­ic Bio­sciences, plac­ing long and short-read DNA tech un­der the same roof

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Il­lu­mi­na $ILMN is con­sol­i­dat­ing its pole po­si­tion in the gene se­quenc­ing mar­ket by ac­quir­ing small­er ri­val Pa­cif­ic Bio­sciences $PACB in a $1.2 bil­lion

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