Brussels, 03/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - On 31 January, the European Commission gave the go-ahead for General Electric as the purchaser of Thermo Fisher's divestment businesses producing and supplying (i) media and sera for cell culture, (ii) gene silencing products, and (iii) polymer-based magnetic beads. In November, Thermo Fisher committed to divest these three businesses as a condition for the Commission's allowing the acquisition of competitor Life Technologies (see EUROPE 10972). The...