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Menlo Park sequencing company Pacific Biosciences announced Tuesday that it plans to buy San Diego biotech Omniome for up to $800 million.
The Bay Area firm boasts the deal will make it the only company with the tools to read both long and short stretches of DNA, allowing it to do everything from uncovering rare genetic diseases to spotting cancer earlier. That would push the firm further into competition with San Diego sequencing giant Illumina, which unsuccessfully tried to buy PacBio for $1.2 billion in 2018.
PacBio will pay Omniome $600 million up front, equally divided between cash and stock, with another $200 million if the startup’s team can bring its sequencing technology to market. The deal should close by late August or early September, according to Mark Van Oene, PacBio’s chief operating officer.
Novel method for glucagon delivery to help individuals living with Type 1 diabetes
For children with Type 1 diabetes, the risk of experiencing a severe hypoglycemic episode is especially common and for parents, the threat of that happening in the middle of the night is especially frightening. Sudden and critical drops in blood sugar can go undetected overnight when the child is asleep, resulting in coma and death an event known as dead in bed syndrome.
A parent can check their child s glucose levels right before they go to bed and everything looks fine, then around 2 a.m. their blood sugar is dangerously low near comatose level.
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