
Before he became Agilent’s CEO, Padraig McDonnell spent evenings on the roads of Ireland helping customers. His next assignment is to make a global company work with that same sense of proximity.
The clever thing about ForteBio's Octet was not simply that it watched molecules bind. It made the sample stand still and sent the sensor in for a dip.
A robot arm was only the beginning. Automata now connects the machines, movements and data that keep laboratories waiting - and gives scientists a chance to leave the bench.