08:54 AM EDT, 07/10/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Health care stocks were steady premarket Wednesday as the Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV) was up 0.03% and iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) was recently inactive.

Illumina ( ILMN ) rose nearly 4% after saying it has acquired Fluent BioSciences, a privately held developer of a highly differentiated single-cell analysis technology.