Many pharmaceutical R&D labs are embracing automation to increase throughput while lowering error rates. Automation takes care of mundane, repetitive tasks, allowing scientists more time to work on the challenging and rewarding parts of research – such as planning experiments, analyzing data and...
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Building the Lab of the Future is more than just gathering all the latest technologies together in one lab. These technologies must create a complex ecosystem that connects devices to each other, and to scientists, to enable seamless workflows and dataflows. A connected lab builds digital...
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With the digital transformation of research laboratories, more pharmaceutical companies are choosing to use electronic records instead of paper-based documentation. The 21 CFR Part 11 regulations, issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), outline how pharma companies must set up and...
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Digital transformation promises to lower R&D costs, improve productivity and accelerate product development. Mobile technologies have helped digitalize a number of industries and are now being adopted in R&D labs within the life science and materials science sectors.
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Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) have been at the forefront of pharmaceutical digitalization. This technology promised to replace paper notebooks with a digital system that was easy, flexible and secure. However, many labs adopted ELNs only to find that they were static and...
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GMP sample preparation involves many complex steps including weighing, dissolving, diluting, incubating etc. Technicians must perform each step with precision in a clean or sterile environment. The specific techniques employed depend on both the type of sample and how it will be used. This...
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The pharmaceutical and biotech industries are highly regulated to ensure drugs and other therapeutic products are safe and effective. Pharmaceutical companies must follow current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations throughout all stages of drug manufacturing.
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Recent progresses in AI-powered drug discovery bring a considerable number of potential drug candidates to the primary assay stage. However, only 10% will go through to clinical trials. It is therefore essential to quickly and accurately screen drug candidates, discard toxic or ineffective...
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Smart, integrated technologies can help scientists streamline workflows, lower error rates and save time. The Lab of the Future is becoming a reality as scientists start to leverage voice-activated and machine learning tools to automate mundane tasks and digitize laboratory records.
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Increasing digitization in the life sciences environment is transforming the modern research laboratory. The resulting transformation into the lab of the future will witness many additional changes including a strong focus on lab automation.
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Voice assistant technologies have been available in the consumer market for a number of years. They can perform a variety of tasks, including reporting on the weather or traffic, locating destinations such as restaurants or shopping centers, and answering general questions at the user's request....
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Everyone expects medicines to be safe and effective. Therefore, regulatory authorities require that drug manufacturing processes follow current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP). Microbiological testing commonly occurs at several stages of drug development to ensure that products are not...
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Emerging technologies in life sciences research and development are poised to usher in the lab of the future. Lab digitization will feature prominently in this next generation research laboratory. Among the many advances in lab digitization that are priming for the lab of the future, modern data...
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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...
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Any company manufacturing drug products, biologics or medical devices must follow current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) regulations. These regulations ensure that medical products are safe and effective for patients and consumers. cGMP regulations are enforced by a number of regulatory...
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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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Bringing a new drug on the market is a long and expensive process. Biopharmaceutical companies spend around $1 billion in R&D per therapeutic product and the recent pandemics have highlighted the necessity of accelerating the deployment of new targeted drugs.
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Today, smart appliances are increasingly becoming powerful tools in our daily lives. We can lock our front doors remotely, order groceries from our refrigerators, or control our household appliances from halfway across the town. The most noticeable aspect of these advances is how seamlessly the...
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What is the lab of the future and do we really need it?
Now consider a nightmarish scenario out of a science fiction movie – a rapidly spreading global pandemic, caused by a highly infectious micro-organism, with no known treatment and little respect for age, gender, or international boundaries!...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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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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Sometimes all it takes is a whim and a few bright minds for an idea to become reality. That is, after all, the popular myth behind the startup industry. Our story, on the other hand, isn’t your traditional startup fairytale. There were no high-octane college grads running from door to door with...
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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...
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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...
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When I finished my master’s degree, I asked myself what felt like a million-dollar question: PhD or no PhD? I like to compare the process of making big decisions to the show "Deal or No Deal." Do you play the safe route and apply for jobs and PhD programs and hope that, after most likely...
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In our Team Talk series, members of the LabTwin team talk about our product development process, the problems our customers face, and solutions to those problems (both from LabTwin and from other companies). To kick off, Magdalena Paluch, our CEO explains why voice is central to everything we do...
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Scientists: you know the struggle is real. How do you explain to a lay person just what you do? It’s hard. You’re often met with that blank stare when you start to talk about DNA and RNA. Just jogging someone’s memory of their eighth-grade biology class takes up 80 percent of the conversation.
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