04.04.2012
- Roche stepped up pressure on Illumina shareholders in its battle to take over the U.S. gene sequencing company, telling them in a letter that its increased $6.7 billion bid...
27.03.2012
- Illumina, a gene-mapping company facing a $5.7 billion hostile takeover bid by Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding, was sued by Columbia University on Monday for allegedly infringing...
26.03.2012
- Roche extended its $5.7 billion cash bid for U.S. gene decoder Illumina for a second time as the Swiss drugmaker sticks to its tried and tested M&A strategy of playing a long game...
24.03.2011
- Scientists have mapped out the full genetic code of 38 people with multiple myeloma, uncovering never-before suspected genes that play a role in the blood cancer and showing that a...