title: Benchtop sequencers find a new home.
abstract: Thermo Fisher Scientific announced plans for a $13.6 billion purchase of Life Technologies, whose subsidiaries include gene-sequencing firm Ion Torrent.
mesh_terms: D004345:Drug Industry / Q000191:economics*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation