In Brief This Week: GE Healthcare; BioServe; DNA Genotek

Jul 30, 2010

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – GE Healthcare has opened a new medical technology manufacturing facility in Cardiff, Wales. The $15 million facility will produce nearly 2,000 life sciences products used in the pharmaceutical, food, and environmental industries. GE said that it already employs more than 400 people at the facility.

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