Boston Children’s, a non-profit, 395-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, will be the majority owner. In a statement, hospital President and CEO Sandra Fenwick said the new company also aims to “advance the standard of care” through genomic sequencing and molecular diagnostics and extend the experiment to others around the country and world.
Investor-owned Life Technologies recorded sales of $3.7 billion in 2011.
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