PerkinElmer Buys Euroscreen Products

PerkinElmer Inc. (NYSE: PKI) has agreed to Euroscreen Products, a majority-owned subsidiary of Euroscreen SA. No financial terms of the all-cash deal were disclosed. Euroscreen SA is a Belgium-based developer of assays and screening technologies for the discovery of drugs acting on G protein-coupled receptors. It has raised venture capital from firms like Synerfi SA. www.euroscreen.be