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news.US-based Sony Corporation of America (SCA), a subsidary of Sony, has purchased the assests of Micronics.
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The acquisition allows Sony to boost up its own research and development, particularly for Point of Care diagnostic equipment and also to commercialize these products.
Micronics will become SCA’s subsidiary and will work with the Sony’s life sciences R& D team to combinely develop new products and technologies.
The company uses its microfluidics technologies to develop patient point of care products in both the molecular and immunoassay diagnostic test domain.
Sony EVP and executive officer Keiji Kimura said they believe that the combination of Micronics’ development capabilities in the medical diagnosis domain and their consumer electronics and IT technologies, such as in optical discs, will enable them to provide solutions that are responsive to the rapidly escalating needs for Point of Care diagnosis.