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...The world’s largest gene-sequencing company said on Tuesday that Thaysen, who previously ran Agilent Technologies’ life sciences and applied markets group, would begin as chief executive on September 25....
...It will use Crispr to attempt to cure amyloidosis, a rare and potentially life-threatening liver condition....
...Investors have always been adept at using new technologies to gain an informational advantage....
...As a former chief patent counsel at GlaxoSmithKline, Ms Knowles, who runs her own life sciences legal consulting firm, has a vested interest in defending IP laws....
...Olmstead v. United States....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...Yet the value of many of those same back catalogues are tied to recording contracts drawn up when downloads were the stuff of science fiction....
...Agilent Technologies, the US medical device company, said that it would acquire Dako, a Danish cancer diagnostics group, in a $2.2bn deal that would increase its presence in the life sciences industry....
...While the physical form of the hinged laptop may be Moggridge’s most recognisable success, the experience of trying to use the machine came to shape his life’s work....
...Last week Agilent Technologies, the US medical device company, said it would acquire Dako, a Danish cancer diagnostics group, in a $2.2bn deal that would increase its presence in the life sciences industry...
...Persistent to buy Agilent’s software unit in France Persistent Systems, a software company, announced they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Agilent Technologies’ software marketing and development...
...“People have been telling me for years that comic books are dying,” writes Joe Simon, the 97-year-old creator of Captain America, in his memoir My Life in Comics....
...It comes a day after Agilent, the maker of electronics test equipment that was spun off from Hewlett-Packard, agreed to pay $1.5bn in cash to diversify into the life sciences industry through the acquisition...
...I’m talking about stocks such as “A” (Agilent Technologies ) or “B” (Barnes Group ). “M” was just given to Macy’s. Microsoft didn’t want it. Too boring, Steve Ballmer supposedly said....
...Aligent’s business is helped by the fact that customers for its testing and measurement products are in some of China’s fastest-growing industries, including telecommunications, life sciences and semiconductors...
...Mr Sullivan said Agilent would look at acquisition opportunities in the bio-analytical measurement market, which includes food and life-sciences testing....
...To Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul and Tom Wolfe, I owe the inspiration and ambition to write non-fiction that rises to the level of fiction, but All the King?...
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