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...The world of DNA sequencing machines used to be dominated by Applied Biosystems of the US, which was acquired in 2008 by Invitrogen and subsumed into a merged company renamed Life Technologies....
...Applied Biosystems, maker of gene-analysis equipment, agreed to pay $273m in cash for the research unit of Ambion, which specialises in DNA research products....
...One of the session's top movers was Ciphergen Biosystems, which climbed 21.4 per cent to $3.29, after the company announced promising results from a study in the detection of early stage ovarian cancer....
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