San Diego, CA-based Illumina Inc., a leader in DNA sequencing, announced the opening of its permanent facility, Illumina Solutions Center in Bangalore, India. The Center features a fully equipped laboratory housing the latest Next-Generation Sequencing and array technologies, and it is fully resourced with field applications and service engineers to...
India’s Consumer Market Soon to Become World’s Third Largest
According to a report by BMI, a company that is part of New York and London-headquartered Fitch Solutions, India’s consumer market is set to become the world’s third largest by 2027. Currently, India ranks fifth, but as the number of middle to high-income households rise, BMI predicts that a 29%...
India’s Mazumdar-Shaw Establishes Kidney Cancer Initiative at Sloan Kettering
"I am profoundly grateful to Mrs. Mazumdar-Shaw for her generosity and vision in establishing the Mazumdar-Shaw Translational Research Initiative for kidney cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Your gift has significantly boosted our research programs and will help us expand our decades-long work of leading global clinical studies...
HP Enterprise, VVDN Tech, to Manufacture $1Billion Worth of Servers in 4-5 years
Palo Alto CA-headquartered Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and original design equipment maker VVDN Technologies headquartered both in Gurugram, India, and Fremont, CA, signed a pact to produce high-end servers worth $1 billion in the next five years. The production is expected to start from November this year. India recently announced...
Apple India Sales Approaches $6 Billion
Speaking at Apple’s Q2 2023 earnings call, CEO Tim Cook made reference to India 20 times reported Bloomberg News. Highlighting that India was at a tipping point, and a major focus for Apple, the chief said that the dynamism and vibrancy in the India market was just ‘unbelievable'. During the...
India Creating a Database of Indian Genomes
The Genome India Project, a state-backed initiative has begun the work to sequence 10,000 Indian human genomes and create a database. At a conference organized by the Association of Biotech-Led Enterprises (ABLE), an industry group, Rajesh Gokhale, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, said, "We have sequenced close to 7,000 genomes and...