{"id":1769,"date":"2008-01-10T17:16:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T00:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2008-01-10T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T00:16:24","slug":"untitled-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Invitrogen Spends $57 Million On CellzDirect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite Carlsbad life sciences firm, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.invitrogen.com\/\">Invitrogen<\/a><\/strong>, has done some shopping. They recently bought <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellzdirect.com\/\">CellzDirect<\/a><\/strong>, a company that &#8220;focuses on hepatocytes that are widely used to predict a compound\u2019s effect on liver metabolism&#8221; for $57 million in cash.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;CellzDirect&#8217;s high-value products and services will greatly complement Invitrogen&#8217;s market-leading portfolio of complete cell systems, including primary cells, media, matrices and growth factors,&#8221; said <strong>Greg Lucier<\/strong>, Invitrogen&#8217;s chairman and chief executive officer, in a statement. &#8220;The purchase of CellzDirect follows our strategy of investing in high growth areas of the market, specifically specialty cell systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re don&#8217;t even know enough to comment on it, but Lucier makes it sound great.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localtechwire.com\/business\/local_tech_wire\/biotech\/story\/2284033\/\">Local Tech Wire<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite Carlsbad life sciences firm, Invitrogen, has done some shopping. They recently bought CellzDirect, a company that &#8220;focuses on hepatocytes that are widely used to predict a compound\u2019s effect on liver metabolism&#8221; for $57 million in cash. &#8220;CellzDirect&#8217;s high-value products and services will greatly complement Invitrogen&#8217;s market-leading portfolio of complete cell systems, including primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}