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LabCorp’s bid for Clearstone part of global clinical trials strategy

Diagnostics technologies and lab services company LabCorp (NYSE:LH) is acquiring Clearstone Central Laboratories to boost the company’s capabilities and global reach providing services for clinical trials. Burlington, North Carolina-based LabCorp announced the definitive agreement on Wednesday, though the company did not disclose any financial terms of its proposed acquisition of privately held Clearstone. The companies […]

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DNA testing company Orchid to be acquired by LabCorp for $85M

Diagnostic technologies and genomic testing company LabCorp will buy DNA testing services company Orchid Cellmark in a deal valued at $85.4 million. LabCorp (NYSE:LH) said that the definitive agreement calls for the Burlington, North Carolina-based company to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Orchid (NASDAQ:ORCH) for $2.80 per share. That’s 39 percent more than […]

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University of Minnesota licenses lupus test to LabCorp

The University of Minnesota has licensed a test for lupus to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (NYSE:LH). Developed by Emily Baechler Gillespie, an assistant professor of medicine at the university's medical school, the test can help doctors proactively treat symptoms of lupus, a painful autoimmune disease.