An Associate Principal Scientist in the Discovery Sciences group at a Top 10 Pharma Company recently started using LabTwin and shared his experience. The scientist is responsible for crafting bioreagents for drug discovery, including transcription factors, ion channels, GPCRs, proteases and...
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Voice-activated digital lab assistants allow scientists to record data and access information while they are running experiments, validating equipment and processes, or managing lab instruments and samples. LabTwin recently hosted a webinar discussing how scientists are currently using voice...
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Pharmaceutical companies are constantly grappling with huge datasets. Technologies are rapidly advancing, allowing researchers to collect vast amounts of preclinical and clinical data during product development. The problem now lies in how to best manage that data to unlock its true value. In the...
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Voice-activated digital lab assistants are one of the fastest-growing trends in consumer technologies – Siri, Alexa, and Google Home are now household names. Voice assistants allow people to naturally and easily communicate with digital tools, reduce screen time, and multi-task.
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The novel coronavirus, Covid-19, has rapidly spread around the world, overwhelming healthcare systems, shutting down countries and causing widespread grocery shortages. Understandably, this has led to fear and misinformation about the Covid-19 virus and potential treatment options.
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Scientists and lab managers are bombarded with new products all claiming to save time and money, be more efficient or provide better results. However, most of the time, life science products are designed and developed in isolation, behind closed doors, and researchers only hear about these products...
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New technologies such as CRISPR, high-throughput screening and organs-on-a-chip have radically changed research capabilities in the past decade. However, lab management software, such as Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) or Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software, has failed to keep up. The way...
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One of the top lab informatics trends is augmented reality (AR) which is moving out of the realms of gaming and into the workplace. Unlike virtual reality, AR tools do not disconnect people from the real world, instead they ‘augment’ it by adding extra information.
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We are lucky to live in the age of Big Data. With rapid technological advances, the cost of creating large datasets such as genomic, transcriptomic or proteomic studies, continues to plummet. Life science companies now have the luxury of creating data relatively quickly and easily. However, these...
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Pharmaceutical companies are constantly grappling with huge datasets. Technologies are rapidly advancing, allowing researchers to collect vast amounts of preclinical and clinical data during product development. The problem now lies in how to best manage that data to unlock its true value. In the...
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User-centered design (UX) drives product development by focusing on the needs and expected behaviors of potential users. UX starts with understanding target users and leads to answers tailored to the needs of users. This necessitates working closely with users to design, develop, and refine...
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Guru Singh weighs in on the biggest trends we see happening in the near future for lab informatics.
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The STEVIE Awards have been celebrating outstanding businesses and entrepreneurs since 2002. This year The Women in Business categories received more than 1,500 entries. Juries made up of more than 200 business professionals scored the entries. Gold awards go to the top scoring entry in each...
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It’s a very exciting time to be involved in research. Technological advances are accelerating and scientists can now answer questions that were impossible to address a decade ago. This abundance of data is a two-edged sword, scientists can feel snowed under by reams of big data and the...
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LabTwin has teamed up with ABI-LAB, a life science startup incubator and accelerator in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Through this partnership, ABI-LAB resident companies now have access to LabTwin’s voice and AI-powered digital lab assistant.
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Over the past 40 years, digitization – the transformation of analog information into digital formats) – has become part of our everyday lives. People around the world now embrace digital medical records, bank statements, bills, newspapers and books. Even money is starting to move from paper-based...
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Funsho Fakuade is a pharmacology researcher in Professor Niels Voigt’s lab at the University Medical Center Göttingen. Funsho performs complex experiments to study how changes in calcium handling in heart cells can contribute to common heart diseases.
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First there was paper, then Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs), now there is LabTwin’s integrated hands-free digital lab assistant.
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Biopharmaceutical companies must collect and analyze an astonishing amount of data to take a product all the way to market. This data is collected by many different groups along the product development pathway. Furthermore, large companies have international teams who need to harmonize experimental...
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Today we announced our partnerships with Californian life science accelerators, Bonneville Labs and Lab Launch. These accelerators support early-stage life science companies by providing smart lab facilities and networking opportunities.
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Ernesto Diaz-Flores is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCSF where he uses a novel multiparametric flow cytometry platform to discover drug targets for high-risk subtypes of childhood leukemia. Ernesto is an early adopter of LabTwin, our voice-powered lab assistant, so I sat down with him to find...
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LabTwin has always been a good listener—we pride ourselves on LabTwin’s ability to accurately transcribe scientific notation—but now our digital assistant can also speak to scientists. LabTwin can now guide researchers step-by-step through interactive protocols, offer feedback, and provide...
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After completing a Master thesis at Bayer HealthCare, Dennis Kwiatkowski is now a PhD student at the Freie Universität Berlin and a research associate in the Institute for Medical Physics and Biophysics at the Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany. Dennis studies G-protein coupled...
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Harsh Kanwar is a Laboratory Manager and Research Technician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His primary areas of research include endocrine diseases that affect bone and mineral metabolism. We caught up with Harsh to find out how LabTwin works alongside him in the lab.
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Ernesto Diaz-Flores is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCSF where he studies novel therapeutic targets for high-risk subtypes of childhood leukemia. I sat down with him to find out what he loves about being a scientist and hear his tips for early career researchers who want to become faculty.
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Sarah Schlagowski works as a technician in Alexander Hahn’s lab at Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH (DPZ). The Hahn lab studies Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus-associated diseases. The Hahn lab focuses on cell receptor-virus interactions with the goal of creating modified viruses for vaccines and...
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Marcin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology with a joint appointment in the Division of Infectious Disease at Emory University School of Medicine. He is an early adopter of LabTwin so we sat down with him to hear more about his research and how LabTwin has helped...
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