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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — April 15, 2013: Markets Drop as Gold Collapses (CMG, FCX, SKS, GFI, GS, C, SCHW, FRC, PBY, BLK, CMA, GS, JNJ, KO, S, DISH, ABX, LIFE, TMO)

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Life Technologies

Media Digest (4/15/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Inside Wall Street: Interest in Genomic Research Sector Heats Up Again

A secluded sector of biotechnology -- DNA sequencing and genetic analysis -- is hot once again on Wall Street. Leaders in the sector, like Ilumina, Life Technologies, and Human Genome Sciences, outscored most other biotechs last year.

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