Last week, we highlighted key advantages of Portable Molecular Spectroscopy. While portable spectrometers make it possible to analyze unknown materials, analyzing unknown and unexplored information from DNA is just as crucial. Recently, scientists have been able to gather much information from our exons, the parts of DNA that are considered coding regions for proteins. However, […]

Scientists often claim to be rational in their purchase decisions and consider only price, availability or quality. But for more than 20 years we at BioInformatics LLC have argued that brand awareness, perceptions and loyalty have a very influential role in scientists’ decisions about which instruments and consumables they will purchase for their labs.

Agilent Technologies is one of the world’s largest providers of laboratory solutions, with $4.5 billion in annual revenues. Agilent is the second largest supplier of analytical and life science instruments, according to IBO’s list of the top 30 industry companies in 2016 (see IBO 4/15/17). IBO named Agilent its Company of the Year for 2017 […]