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Merck to Buy Biotech Firm for $1.1B

October 30, 2006

Pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. said Monday it agreed to pay an eye-popping $1.1 billion to buy Sirna Therapeutics Inc., a tiny biotechnology firm developing drugs based on new technology at the heart of last month’s Nobel Prize for medicine award.

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