Article: United States: Thermo Fisher closes BRAHMS buyout, launches first product.

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Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher's specialty diagnostics business closes its $470 million buyout of the German in-vitro diagnostics maker and launches its first product in Europe. Thermo Fisher closes B.R.A.H.M.S. buyout, launches first product

The ink was hardly dried on the paperwork for Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.'s deal to acquire German in-vitro diagnostics maker B.R.A.H.M.S. AG for roughly $470 million before the union's first product hit the market.

The Waltham, Mass.-based lab instruments and supplies maker, which said it closed the deal Oct. 1, released a new assay to detect heart attacks in Europe. The Copeptin ...

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