Pic by masakazu sasaki via UnsplashPan-European private‑equity firm Astorg has agreed to acquire Thermo Fisher Scientific’s global microbiology business for about US$1.08bn, carving it out into a standalone platform focused on antimicrobial susceptibility testing and microbiology diagnostics. The investment is being made through Astorg VIII, the firm’s latest flagship buy‑out fund.
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GenerareFrench Generare, founded in 2023, is positioning itself at the intersection of synthetic biology and artificial intelligence by tackling what many in the sector now see as a fundamental bottleneck: the lack of genuinely novel molecular data.
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