A company at the center of one of the hottest technologies in life science research, and one of the most vicious patent battles among makers of lab instruments, has closed a chapter.
NanoString Technologies, a Seattle-based company that makes machines for parsing how RNA and proteins vary across cells — an approach known as spatial biology — will be acquired for $392.6 million by the scientific instrument company Bruker. It filed for bankruptcy in February.
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