Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, California) recently announced the intent to establish an R&D center in Bengaluru, India. The center will host a multidisciplinary team for chemical analysis, molecular biology, and software for creating novel and complex scientific applications on its instrument.
The initial focus will be on liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, but the company hopes to extend the center's focus to include R&D capabilities to other platforms, such as microfluidics, gas chromatography, and microarrays.