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Dynamic Healthcare M&A Database - 2Q05



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Acquiring Party    Beckman Coulter, Inc., a manufacturer of laboratory automation products.
Transferring Party    Agencourt Bioscience Corporation, a provider of genomic services and nucleic acid purification products.
Sector    Diagnostics
Date    April 27, 2005
Analysis
Agencourt's patented RNS and DNA isolation and purification products are used with Beckman Coulter's Biomek® automated liquid handling systems. Beckman Coulter plans to use the products in automated sample preparation systems for biomedical research and molecular testing. $100 million stock purchase, with possible $40 million in contingent payments.




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