At L7 Informatics, Vasu Rangadass aims to reduce drug manufacturing costs, streamline operations, and, above all, help patients and providers alike. [Read More]
The aging workforce, looming retirement of baby boomers, and lack of new talent entering the industry will have a huge impact on the global mining workforce. Despite the limited number of programs, there are some amazing opportunities across the country for students to learn about the mineral and mining industry and work in state-of-the-art underground mining laboratories.
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When deploying your LIMS, the LabLynx team helps align your solution with your lab’s organizational structure. We work with you to identify the user profiles, management tools, and approval processes that your lab needs to run more efficiently. Once implemented, your LIMS administrators can easily reconfigure these capabilities to reflect new personnel or reporting structures.
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In today’s world, analytics is more important than ever and an essential part of public health. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, public
and health officials need to stay current, monitor trends, and make informed decisions with every tool available,
especially those using data. In this article, we present concrete examples and discuss how two seasoned analytics techniques—
forecasting and heat mapping—can be reapplied in new ways that weren’t available during past pandemics.
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We are at an interesting time in today’s Pharmacovigilance (PV) landscape as there are several new systems coming to market as well as significant upgrades to systems already in the market. A strong Pharmacovigilance (PV) selection process will set you up for not only a system that meets your requirements but also a successful implementation.
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Welcome to the second part of our series on
QLIMS Business Intelligence. In our previous article, we focused on Dashboards, Visualisations, and the powerful Kibana. In this second part of our QLIMS series, we will delve into the platform’s SaaS solution, maintenance, and development.
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We rely on food testing labs to guarantee the security of our food supply chain at all points within the food distribution system. Food-borne illness outbreaks can have disastrous consequences and implications for public health, but what notification systems exist for these scenarios? Does the consumer even consider these notifications before acting?
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Ensuring timely and accurate Regulatory submissions can be a daunting task. The volume of processes, systems, and supporting tools needed to plan, track, author, publish, and submit to Health Authorities can be staggering. The process can be more complex when global affiliates require Rest of World (ROW) submissions.
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Managing the day-to-day operations of a research laboratory is a very challenging task. It requires speed, efficiency, and flexibility to keep up in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. This being why an advanced Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is essential in helping research labs streamline operations while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity.
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Precision therapeutics refers to the new classes of treatments that have been developed to treat diseases with specific characteristics, whether it be genetic defects, immunological deficiencies, or molecular profiles.
MES as part of a manufacturing operations management application suite can intensely improve problems in manufacturing precision therapeutics. [Read More]
Good laboratory practice, or GLP, is a quality system of management concerned with the organizational process and conditions of non-clinical laboratory testing. The most central elements of GLP are record-keeping and the maintenance of attributable, original, accurate, and traceable reports and critical documents. Adding a laboratory information management system (LIMS) to any lab can help easily meet the requirements to ensure GLP adherence.
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Clinical research involving human subjects is crucial for the development of new treatments, drugs, and therapies, but it must be conducted in an ethical manner that protects the rights and well-being of the participants. Informed consent is the cornerstone of ethical research, requiring that participants or donors are provided with sufficient information about the study to make an informed decision about whether to participate or not.
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Data has become an invaluable asset for organisations, including laboratory data. However, accessing laboratory data has been a challenge, as many LIMS applications rely on outdated technologies and systems. But with the advent of modern data analysis tools like Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the field of data science has become more accessible. In this blog article, we will explore
QLIMS Business Intelligence which helps organisations to visualise the data and convert it into knowledge. This is
the first part of our series on QLIMS BI. Stay tuned for the second part.
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Data migration with ETL Tools can be a deceptively complex process and challenges can appear suddenly without a comprehensive plan. This is not uncommon when project teams focus on system configuration and software customization and delay the data migration. This is a mistake that can cause major delays and threaten business continuity. This checklist summarizes best practices for migration planning with the support of automated
Extract-Transfer-Load (ETL) tools.
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Since the launch of the program over a decade ago, Feed the Future has developed a network of top US universities and global research and educational institutions to create Feed the Future Innovation Labs. These specialized labs are tackling some of the world's greatest challenges in agriculture and food security, from developing aquaculture and climate-resistant crops to improving pest management methods and animal health.
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Testing for safety and quality is central to the creation of reliable data. Businesses across multiple industries choose to work with a contract lab instead of bringing the laboratory testing in-house. Utilizing the services of contract testing laboratories can supply a host of benefits, especially to startups or small companies, but also larger enterprise operations that may not have the core competency to conduct certain tests.
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Your manufacturing execution system (MES) can be a valuable part of your organization’s data management plan—if you are using it to its full potential. Is your MES integrated with your laboratory information management system (LIMS) or your enterprise resource planning (ERP) software? If you are operating in the life sciences industry, has your MES been validated for its intended use? If you haven’t thought about your MES as a vital part of your broader organization, you’re not alone. In this blog post, we’ll share why you should consider bringing your MES more fully into your informatics strategy. But first, a little history.
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Download this new white paper from Astrix that explores the emerging tech that’s driving life sciences forward. Underlying successful digital transformations, is the critical need for R&D organizations to leverage information assets to enable enhanced insights, decision making, and process automation. While companies are at different starting points, there are several in common approaches to a digital transformation.
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Lab research, which is crucial for scientific advancement and innovation, has always relied on note-taking to keep track of experiments, observations, and results. Unfortunately, traditional paper notebooks pose several problems for researchers, including the risk of loss or damage, logistical issues, and difficulty in structuring the data for analysis. Some organizations use an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) point solution, however, these also have their own limitations, such as a lack of integration with other lab systems, challenges in data sharing and management, and the need for manual data entry. [Read More]
Most American consumers are unaware of the rigorous testing processes that take place before a new drug hits the market. Highly effective and reliable testing is essential for new pharmaceutical products that can help improve health conditions and life quality to reach the end patient. The right Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can help a laboratory improve all of its operations and efficiencies, including the highly-detailed process of pharmaceutical testing.
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