Digene, Local Maker of HPV Test, to Be Sold to Dutch Firm
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Digene Corp., a Gaithersburg firm that sells a screening test for a virus that causes cervical cancer, announced a deal yesterday to sell itself to a Dutch company for approximately $1.6 billion in cash and stock.
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Akzo Nobel  said on Monday it was selling its drugs unit Organon BioSciences to Schering-Plough  for 11 billion euros ($14.4 billion), in a last-minute reversal of plans to float it on the stock market.
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By Urvaksh Karkaria, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville  Dec. 20--International Paper said Tuesday it will sell its  Jacksonville-based Arizona Chemical business to Rhone Capital III L.P. for  $485 million, as the paper maker focuses on its uncoated paper and packaging  businesses.
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Biotechnology company Clinical Data Inc. said it is selling its Dutch diagnostics business to France's ELITech Group for $15 million to focus on its core business. Newton-based Clinical Data said it will hold about $4.5 million in cash from Vital Scientific BV, netting $19.5 million on the transaction. Clinical Data said the $4.5 million was from cash on the company's ...
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LONDON, December 17  - Dutch electronics company Royal Philips Electronics NV (PHI1.ETR) announced yesterday that it has entered into an agreement to sell its PC monitor and flat TV businesses to Taiwanâs TPV Technology Ltd for $358
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LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA has sold its Christian Lacroix fashion house to U.S.-based Falic Group, a spokeswoman for the French luxury goods giant said Tuesday.
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Alkermes brings another drug into clinic stage testing.
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AstraZeneca Plc, the UK&#39;s second biggest drugmaker, bought a 19.9 percent stake in Cambridge Antibody Technology Group Plc, an unprofitable biotechnology company, for 75 million pounds ($139 million).
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Sanofi Pasteur MSD says it has won approval to begin selling Gardasil, the first vaccine against cervical cancer, in Europe.
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WASHINGTON -- Cytyc Corp., of Marlborough, a maker of tests for cervical cancer, has agreed to pay $450 million for Adeza Biomedical Corp., gaining equipment used to identify women at risk of having premature babies.
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Seeking to improve its drug discovery technology and establish a beachhead in the fertile Cambridge biotechnology cluster, drug giant Schering-Plough Corp. of Kenilworth, N.J., said it would buy NeoGenesis Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge for an undisclosed sum.
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US consumer healthcare company Perrigo is to buy Israeli drug-maker Agis for $818m (Â£441.5m) in cash and stock. The deal will create a firm with annual sales of $1.
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ID Biomedical Corp. (IDB.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (IDBE.O: Quote, Profile, Research) signed a US distribution deal for its Fluviral drug that could reap sales
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WASHINGTON - The company that owns the famed Commodore computer brand has been sold to Yeahronimo Media Ventures Inc., a Beverly Hills, California, digital music distributor.
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Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals won federal approval yesterday to sell Tarceva, a pill to treat lung cancer.
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ID Biomedical Corp. (IDB.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (IDBE.O: Quote, Profile, Research) signed a 10-year US distribution deal for its Fluviral drug that could reap
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Epoch Biosciences, a small Bothell company that makes tools to speed up genetic analysis, said yesterday it has agreed to be sold to San Diego-based Nanogen for about $60 million in stock.