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MilliporeSigma Agrees to Acquire Mirus Bio for $600M

Mirus Bio develops & commercializes transfection reagents, which play a critical role in the production of viral vector-based gene therapies.

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By: Charlie Sternberg

Associate Editor

MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mirus Bio for $600 million.   Mirus Bio, part of Gamma Biosciences, is a life science company based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA that specializes in the development and commercialization of transfection reagents, such as TransIT-VirusGEN, which play a critical role in the production of viral vector-based gene therapies.   “Viral vector-based cell and gene th...

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