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AstraZeneca in Orchid tie-in

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 19:00 EST, 13 February 2001

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AstraZeneca is to collaborate in genetic research with America's Orchid BioSciences in an effort to personalise drugs.

Separately, Orchid agreed to buy AstraZeneca's Cellmark Diagnostics, a genetic testing unit, for an undisclosed sum. AstraZeneca shares rose 34p to 3075p.

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