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13 Signs That Someone Is About to Quit, According to Research

Despite a century of speculation by managers and scholars, we know very little about whether certain cues or signs exhibited by employees can predict whether they’re about to quit.

Asuragen’s QuantideX® qPCR BCR-ABL IS Kit Receives FDA Premarket Clearance for Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Austin, Texas 07/25/2016 Asuragen, Inc. today announced that it received premarket clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the QuantideX® qPCR BCR-ABL IS Kit for the monitoring of molecular response in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) patients. It is the first FDA-cleared diagnostic kit for use in CML management. The kit’s unparalleled sensitivity, reproducibility and simplicity provide clinicians…

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LabCorp Announces Agreement to Acquire Sequenom

BURLINGTON, N.C. & SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 27, 2016– Laboratory Corporation of America® Holdings (LabCorp®) (NYSE:LH), the world’s leading healthcare diagnostics company, andSequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM), a pioneer in non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for reproductive health, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger under which LabCorp would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Sequenom in a cash…

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BioAdvance Commits $2.9M to 15 Life Sciences Companies

PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BioAdvance announced that during the past 12 months it added nine new companies and technologies to its portfolio and made follow-on investments in six of its existing companies. Overall, these investments represent a $2.9M commitment to the success and growth of life science companies and to this region. To Learn More