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IIT Kharagpur team develops affordable diagnostic technologies for remote, resource constrained areas
10 Jan 2023
Sree Chitra Institute develops multiplex RT-PCR kit that can detect new strains of Wuhan virus
18 May 2021
New device transforms breath into words to allow the paralysed to ‘speak’
29 Aug 2015
A new device which transforms paralysis victims’ breath into words – believed to be the first invention of its kind – has been developed by academics from Loughborough University
J&J accepts $4 bn bid from Carlyle for its ortho-clinical diagnostics business
01 Apr 2014
Johnson & Johnson's ortho-clinical diagnostics unit was created in 1994 when it acquired the clinical diagnostics division of Eastman Kodak and formed Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, which was then merged in 1997 with Ortho Diagnostic Systems
J&J to sell Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit to Carlyle for $4.15 bn
17 Jan 2014
US healthcare major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) yesterday agreed to sell its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) unit to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $4.15 billion.
PE firms in race for J&J’s Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit
01 Oct 2013
Private equity firms have tabled preliminary bids for Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit, which could fetch the US healthcare major around $5 billion
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