SeraCare Life Sciences buys Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories as it looks to expand its focus on personalized medicine

SeraCare Life Sciences, a Milford company that makes life sciences products for the diagnostics industry, said Monday that it acquired Kirkegaard & Perry Laboratories, a company that makes antibodies used for biomedical research. The acquisition expands SeraCare's expertise in the emerging field of personalized medicine, said the company, whose press release did not include financial details of the transaction. "The diagnostics industry requires high quality materials for use in assay design, de...