A view shows the headquarters of Life Technologies Corp in CarlsbadBEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Commerce Ministry mentioned it had authorized U.S.-listed laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc’s $thirteen.6 billion takeover of Life Applied sciences Corp , subject to sure stipulations. The prerequisites are that Thermo Fisher lower the prices of two types of its merchandise sold in China, sell its cell culture and gene adjustment businesses, and its stake of fifty one percent in China’s Lanzhou National Hyclone Bio-engineering Co Ltd. (Reporting through Koh Gui Qing and Xiaoyi Shao; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)