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Life Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:LIFE): Closing price $63.99

Inside sources now believe that the firm’s sale has changed in favor of strategic buyers for the maker of DNA-sequencing equipment, as other buyout firms withdraw, adding that chances are increasing that either Danaher Corp. or Thermo Fisher Scientific could acquire Life. One-time suitors who have dropped out of the race include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., The Blackstone Group, and Temasek Holdings, according to two sources.

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