Automation / robotics

Adaptyv Bio, a Swiss/US technology company that develops infrastructure and tools for protein designers to engineer better proteins, has built a protein engineering foundry that it says will “pave the way” for protein designers to develop new medicines, novel enzymes and sustainable materials. AI tools like ChatGPT are revolutionising how the world generates text, images […]

SLAS Europe 2023 will take place 22-26 May in Brussels, Belgium, where attendees will embrace the theme Science Set in Motion. DDW’s Multimedia Editor Megan Thomas explores what to expect from the event. Scientific tracks SLAS Europe 2023 will feature four tracks focused on life sciences and their global impact: Biology Unveiled, Frontiers in Technology, […]

Iktos has raised €15.5m in a Series A funding round to expand its artificial intelligence-based drug discovery technologies and solutions. The round was co-led by new investors M Ventures and Debiopharm Innovation Fund with participation from Omnes Capital. The financing will enable the company to launch Iktos Robotics; a drug discovery platform which combines artificial […]

Ashwin Pillai is Test Engineer 3 in HTS & Assay Development at Ginkgo Bioworks, a company whose mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ahead of his presentation in the Automation Technologies Track at SLAS2023, Pillai shares insight on data and how we can connect lab automation to decisions. Pillai works directly with scientists […]

A collaboration between Automata and the Advanced Sequencing Facility (ASF) at The Francis Crick Institute hopes to unlock the power of integrated automation for genomics sample preparation.  Genomics sample preparation workflows are ideally suited for automation given the need for robustness and scalability.   The teams will automate three workflows to decrease manual touchpoints, increase throughput […]

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Peter Walters, Director Advanced Therapies, CRB, and Grace Linton, Director Process Architecture, CRB about automation within laboratory settings and its effect on the pharmaceutical industry. RA: How are labs utilising automated systems in regard to personalised medicines? PW: Process development and pilot labs are seeing flexible, adaptable, and automated […]

Robotics & Automation 2022 will take place from 30 November to 1 December 2022, at Festo, Esslingen, Stuttgard. The meeting is jointly organised by SLAS and ELRIG UK, and will focus on the application and interaction of robotics and automation in the traditional biological and chemical spaces, as well as the physical challenges of how […]

A new system utilising artificial intelligence (AI), ‘building-block’ chemistry and a molecule-making machine could speed up innovation and drug discovery, as well as make complex chemistry automated and accessible. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators in Poland and Canada doubled the average yield of a special, hard-to-optimise type of reaction linking carbon […]

Learn more about the importance of high throughput Cryo-EM on 1 November at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 4pm GMT or 5pm CET in this free webinar, hosted by DDW and supported by SPT Labtech. Register for free here. Cryo-EM has been adopted into drug discovery workflows by the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries having proved itself […]

Don’t miss out on this free webinar on 1 November at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 4pm GMT, 5pm CET. It is called Utilising novel sample preparation techniques to enhance Cryo-EM structural analysis and is hosted by DDW and supported by SPT Labtech. Confirm your attendance by registering free now. Cryo-EM has been adopted into drug […]