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2013/1/11 news of the week@SCIENCE之五：审核完毕，深圳华大将接手加州基因测序公司
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本周第五条，原文链接：http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6116/124.2.full.pdf Mountain View, California 5 BGI-Shenzhen Cleared to Take Over Complete Genomics 审核完毕，深圳华大即将接手加州基因测序公司 A review panel has dismissed concerns that a merger between the Chinese sequencing dynamo BGI-Shenzhen (Science, 3 February 2012, p. 516) and a struggling California company, Complete Genomics Inc., would threaten U.S. security. In September, BGI offered $117.6 million for control of Complete Genomics and promised to invest $30 million in cash to rejuvenate the firm. 来自中国炙手可热的基因测序公司深圳华大（BGI-Shenzhen）和挣扎在死亡线上的加州完全基因组公司，这二者的合并引起了极大关注，人们担心这样会威胁美国的国家安全，而评审委员会却对这一担心置之不理。去年9月份，华大公司提出要以1.176亿美元来控制完全基因公司，并承诺还会以现金形式投资3千万美元来重振该公司往日雄风。 Founded in 2005, Complete Genomics uses proprietary methods to sequence entire human genomes with accuracy. The company has been losing money since its launch, however, and seemed headed for collapse in 2013. It accepted the lifesaving offer from BGI, but the deal ran into opposition. Several critics—including a U.S. maker of sequencing machines, Illumina of San Diego, California—warned that the deal might give China technology of key economic or military value (such as bioweapons manufacturing). In late December, however, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ruled out such worries. This week, the deal emerged from a second waiting period that allows for an anticompetitive risk review and now seems cleared for takeoff. 成立于2005年的完全基因公司使用专利技术来给人类的全部基因组做精确测序。然而，从成立之初公司就开始亏损，而且可能会在2013年走向破产。公司虽然接受了华大抛来的救命橄榄枝，但是还没有能够紧紧抓住它。该交易的反对者们—包括一家位于加州圣地亚哥的测序仪器制造商Illumina—警告说交易可能把具有核心经济价值和军事价值（比如生物武器的制造技术）的技术泄露给中国。去年12月末，美国境外投资委员排除了安全威胁的可能性。本周，交易进入了第二个等待期来进行反竞争风险评估。现在看来，障碍似乎已经清扫完毕，交易可以开始了。 *************************************************************** Science的原文和本翻译仅用于网友交流学习之用，若您有其它用途，比如商业用途等，请联系Science杂志社了解原文使用权等相关事宜。谢谢！ [ Last edited by myIDname on 2013-1-21 at 10:06 ] |
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