POSTS TAGGED AS laboratory

Software Change Control in Laboratory Automation

Laboratory Automation System
“At our laboratory, we [informatics managers at Yale New Haven Hospital] implemented a form-based change control process that [MORE]

Hand Held PCR Device

MYRTA – handheld device for PCR
Lincoln, Nebraska “Materials and Machines Corporation (MatMaCorp) has introduced its new handheld device MY Real-Time [MORE]

Total Laboratory Automation, an Update

Total laboratory automation
Many of our readers will be familiar with total laboratory automation; this piece is a nice catch-up.  “While [MORE]

Electrothermal Device for Separating Tissue Layers

Electrothermal soft manipulator
“This study [from University of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign] presents a soft manipulator that can manipulate and transport cell/tissue sheets and [MORE]

“Robo RXN”

RoboRXN. Automating Chemical Synthesis
“In a recent news release, the research arm of IBM announced that their Zurich team has developed [MORE]

First Artificial Neuron

Artificial neurons
“A team of international researchers has achieved a world-first breakthrough, decades in the making, creating artificial neurons with the [MORE]

Need to Automate Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Use

Mass Spectrometry Quantitative Proteomic Workflows
Mass spectroscopy is a technology for determining, among other things, the size and weight of protein [MORE]

Keeping Tissue Alive in the Lab

Heart slices in biomimetic culture system
Researchers at the University of Louisville have developed a culture system that can keep slices [MORE]

CRISPR on a Chip

Digital DNA detection
First, affix a piece of graphene to a pyrene substrate.  Then, load Cas9 and guide RNA molecules onto [MORE]

A “Universal Cancer Biomarker”

UQ Cancer test shows particles changing color
According to University of Queensland bioengineers: “When circulating tumor DNA fragments are placed in [MORE]

A New Blood Volume Analyzer

BVA-100 Blood volume analyzer
Knowing a patient’s blood volume and its constituents is critical information for treating burns, trauma and hemorrhage—and [MORE]

Preserving Blood to Isolate CTCs

Liquid biopsy
Several advanced diagnostics for circulating tumor cells exist—such as single cell qPCR, digital PCR and RNA sequencing—but limiting their [MORE]

IoT for the research laboratory

Internet of things
The Internet of Things (IoT) suggests that it is possible to integrate any number of devices or information [MORE]

Frugal Scientists: Toy Centrifuge and Paper Microscope

PATH’s $1 Folding Paper Microscope Developed at Stanford
There are two pieces in this entry—the first about a homemade centrifuge for [MORE]