IDT buys VH Bio's oligo business

Integrated DNA Technologies, a leading US oligonucleotide synthesis firm, has purchased the oligo business of VH Bio, based in Gateshead,  the UK. IDT will supply VH Bio's customers from its own state-of-the-art  facility in Leuven, Belgium, while building on the local customer  service for which VH Bio has been renowned in the UK. Financial terms  have not been disclosed.

As a result, current VH Bio oligo customers will have access to a much  broader range of products, with 100% quality control-checked sequences  and next-day delivery. VH Bio will continue to distribute its full  range of other products for immunologists/molecular biologists.

IDT and VH Bio have also announced an agreement to work together to grow  IDT's oligonucleotide business in the UK. The two companies will combine  efforts to introduce the US group's market-leading products to  scientists throughout the country.