Article: Bayer Buying Pharmacogenomics Firm Visible Genetics For $61.4M.

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Bayer Corp. is scooping up Visible Genetics Inc. for $61.4 million in cash as the parties signed a definitive agreement for a deal that brings to Bayer VGI's Trugene HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and OpenGene DNA Sequencing System.

The product, which received marketing clearance in September, expands Bayer's presence in the nucleic acid diagnostic segment of the professional laboratory market. The company's Tarrytown, N.Y.-based diagnostics division labeled the acquisition another milestone in a strategy to expand its infectious disease portfolio through marketing molecular diagnostic tests.

"They feel molecular diagnostics is a growth ...

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