Article: Roche Holding AG.(CORPORATE)(Roche Holding Ltd. acquired CuraGen Corp.)(Brief article)

ROCHE HOLDING AG., the world's biggest maker of diagnostic tests, agreed to buy CuraGen Corp.'s (New Haven CT) 454 Life Sciences unit for $140 million in cash to gain the company's DNA-mapping technology. Basel, Switzerland-based Roche already had a research collaboration with CuraGen that gave it access to the genome-sequencing system. 454 Life Sciences' machines can read how genetic sequences are organized on a ...

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