MilliporeSigma’s CTO on AI retrosynthesis, the Merck KGaA–Siemens deal and the chemistry that runs the autonomous lab
Over the past decade and a half, the Darmstadt-based Merck KGaA has assembled a supplier that touches nearly every bench in the lab. It bought Millipore in 2010, with the membrane filters and Milli-Q…
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