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Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH announced it has proposed the transfer of core technologies from the recently acquired Bio-Rad CellScience division to its headquarters in Jena, Germany. Bio-Rad CellScience is a supplier of confocal and multiphoton microscopy instrumentation with eighty-four employees based in Hemel Hempstead, England. With the acquisition, twenty-one Bio-Rad sales and service specialists outside the UK have been integrated into Carl Zeiss subsidiaries worldwide. Carl Zeiss also said it has proposed consolidating its product line by discontinuing the production of the CellScience product lines Radiance, Clonis and CellMap.