Companies involved in product development rely on R&D innovation and process efficiency to drive success. Yet, efforts to improve in these areas are often hampered by poor data management strategies. Many rely on paper-based methods or disconnected legacy systems that serve to wall off data into siloes. Researchers need to […]
Maintaining a laboratory is a process of controlling chaos. A big part of the chaos comes from data generation and aggregation: In most laboratories, reagents, experimental apparatuses, common use computers and samples in storage are free-for-alls, with all of their attendant metadata left in a state of disarray. Most labs […]
Manufacturers of consumer packaged goods (CPG) are looking for ways to harness the power of information technology to improve their profitability. Chasing promises of machine learning algorithms which will offer the golden path to bottleneck-free production, companies within the industry have scrambled to fit every piece of manufacturing capital with […]
Paper notebooks have long been a mainstay of the research lab. And while it’s true that they are cheap, handy and convenient, they aren’t very efficient or durable. It takes a lot of time to write and transcribe data by hand, and relying on paper lab notebooks often results in […]
Researchers might be intrigued by the idea of DNA origami and its potential, but most biologists would rather let engineers or chemists handle the prickly problems of turning the concept of DNA nanostructures into a useful final product.1 Though nearly all labs have access to the necessary experimental materials to […]
The elderly population in the United States is on the rise. According to a January 2016 report released by the Population Reference Bureau, the number of Americans who are 65 or older will rise from about 46 million in 2016 to over 98 million in 2060—more than doubling in less […]
Whether by confocal microscopy or FISH, producing attractive and useful images of cellular phenomena requires a special touch that most scientists never get the chance to develop. With the advent of a new technique for super resolution microscopy, now everyone in the lab has a fresh chance to get their […]
What if you could replace your laboratory’s antibody supply with a library of custom-built probes which served the same purpose at a fraction of the price and at a multiple of the efficacy? Enter the age of the aptamers—short oligonucleotides that can bind arbitrary targets in a cheaper and more […]
According to new research recently published in the Journal of Immunology, there’s a good chance that the answer is yes.1 Eager to hop into the biologics and immunotherapeutic crazes, researchers successfully immunized a group of neonatal mice against a common allergen: cockroach-borne enterobacteria. Following inoculation, researchers were able to isolate […]
New research using a modified Cas9 protein has shown that with the proper tools, geneticists have unprecedented access to edit the epigenome.1 Accessing the epigenome is a treasure trove of research on the same scale as CRISPR. However, utilizing this new research to maximum effect will require a comprehensive software […]
