LabCorp buys DNA testing firm

Dec 5, 2014, 3:03pm EST Updated: Dec 5, 2014, 3:12pm EST

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LabCorp has acquired Bode Technology Group Inc. from New York-based SolutionPoint International Inc.

As a subsidiary of Burlington-based LabCorp (NYSE: LH), Bode Technology will continue to provide forensic DNA analysis, DNA collection products and relationship testing. It will work with LabCorp's U.S.- and United Kingdom-based DNA Identity and Cellmark Forensics businesses.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bode is based in Lorton, Va.

Under the combined business, Cellmark Forensics and Bode Technology will provide DNA testing services to

federal and state governments, law enforcement agencies, crime laboratories, disaster management organizations and various consumer markets in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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