The dealmaking column is a survey of recent transactions, including strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions, and financings, in the life sciences industries. Deals are listed by the following industry sectors: in vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and research/analytical instrumentation and reagents. All transactions are excerpted from Elsevier's Strategic Transactions.

A roundup of recent medtech strategic alliances, mergers & acquisitions and financings.

One strategy for growth among analytical platform companies is to leverage its instrumentation sales channel by developing or acquiring diagnostics content. Nanostring is now doing this by in-licensing a gene expression signature for breast tumor typing. And unlike other molecular tests for guiding breast cancer therapy, which are performed in specialty CLIA labs run by their developers, this one will be broadly distributed to hospitals and pathology laboratories globally.