Lab automation

The Scitara Scientific Integration Platform (SIP) has been designed as a solution to the lab connectivity challenge that is common in the industry and reportedly allows true data mobility throughout the scientific enterprise.  What is the SIP?  The SIP category is a cloud native infrastructure that allows modern laboratories to realise the full benefit of digital transformation. SIP establishes […]

PerkinElmer has launched the PKeye Workflow Monitor, a cloud-based platform enabling laboratory personnel to remotely manage and monitor PerkinElmer instruments and workflows in real-time.  The PKeye Workflow Monitor informs users of the start, stop and completion of operations. It can also notify users if manual intervention is needed, such as the replenishment of tips or need to refill reagents. […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast:   The workload in pharmacovigilance (PV) is soaring and as new vaccines and medications enter the market, it’s crucial to track adverse events (AE). As AE reports still have to be filed within 24 hours, Kathleen O’Brien of Amplexor Life Sciences lays out a blueprint for centralising global AE reporting.  AE notifications come in […]

Culture Biosciences has selected Scispot.io to digitise and automate its media preparation workflows while maintaining an audit trail.   Connecting data from multiple sources with Scispot, Culture Bioscience aims to reduce its experiment failure rate and improve the scientific output.  “Scispot is designed for mapping custom biomanufacturing workflows developed by Culture Biosciences. Using Scispot, Culture is increasing its experiment success rate and optimising the usage of chemicals […]

1910 Genetics has been awarded an approximate $550,000 Phase I STTR grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).   The grant, received from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) as part of the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, supports the discovery of a novel small molecule drug […]

PerkinElmer has launched Signals Image Artist software, an image analysis and management platform for drug discovery research. The new offering is designed to help scientists accurately process and analyse their high-content screening (HCS) and cellular imaging data in a matter of hours, versus days or weeks, so they can make more informed decisions faster. The Signals Image Artist offering […]

  This paid-for whitepaper by The SiLA (Standardization in Lab Automation) consortium appeared in DDW Volume 22, Issue 4 – Fall 2021  R&D, manufacturing and contract research laboratories across many industries are investing in efforts to digitalise their processes and operations, with the goal of achieving end-to-end connectivity and automation. A common aim is to […]

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has partnered with Spanish Bioindustry Association (AseBio) to support the intersection of economic, technological and business areas of biotechnology and biomedicine. As part of this partnership, SLAS will support BioSpain 2021 as a sponsor between September 27 and October 1, 2021 in Pamplona-Iruña, Spain. The digital event […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Dr Patrick Courtney (SiLA consortium), Burkhard Schaefer (SiLA consortium/ASTM AnIML) and Oliver Peter, Senior Director, Senior Group Leader Biology Technologies and Lead Discovery, Biology, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, look at the importance of automation in the face of global disease. As we write this, vaccines are being injected into arms […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Laura Marozsan, Scientific Marketing Specialist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, outlines the benefits  of automation in drug discovery. Automation plays a crucial role in modern drug discovery, enabling improvements in efficiency, standardisation, reproducibility and data integrity. An effective automated laboratory contains two main components, physical automation and a unified digital […]