General Electric Company to Keep Life-Science Unit Despite Shift to Heavy Industry

General Electric Co. plans to keep its $4 billion life-sciences operations even as the manufacturing giant remakes itself around heavy industry.

GE is looking to expand investment in the fast-growing business, Healthcare Chief Executive Officer John Flannery said Friday at an investor meeting. Sales in life sciences, which makes products spanning chromatography, imaging and cell-therapy tools, will increase at least 10 percent this year, GE said.

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