SARANAC LAKE — The affordable housing shortage is impacting the local health care industry. As local hospitals and biotech businesses struggle to add more staff, industry leaders say housing is
SARANAC LAKE — Bionique, a Saranac Lake-based testing laboratory with a specialty in keeping medicines safe from bacteria, was acquired on Wednesday by Asahi Kasei, a Japanese chemical company. Bionique
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A ribbon to formally open Bionique Testing Laboratoriesâ second location is formally cut by, from left, Executive Chair Dr. Jill Mariano, CEO Galdis Zamparo and Saranac Lake village Mayor Clyde Rabideau. The new lab is in downtown Saranac Lake in the villageâs old water building on Main Street beside the Saranac River dam.
(Enterprise photo â Peter Crowley) SARANAC LAKE Bionique Testing Laboratories has mostly laid low and done its thing in its 30-plus years here. But that thing testing for mycoplasma (more on that in a minute) has helped this family-owned biotech company grow into a significant local employer.