March 14, 2023 - GxP Data Integrity for Cloud Apps: Part -1
GxP is a general abbreviation for the "Good Practice" quality guidelines and regulations. The “G” stands for Good "x" stands for various fields, including the pharmaceutical, life-sciences, agricultural, clinical, laboratory, manufacturing and food industries. The purpose of the guidelines is to ensure that the regulated organizations comply with the standard processes of various functions. [Read More]
March 14, 2023 - Should You Accept a Counteroffer?
You’ve finally decided to move on from your current job and accept a new job offer. Congratulations! Now comes the hard part—you need to tell your boss. Surprisingly, they come back with a counteroffer. A counteroffer from your current employer can be tempting, especially if it includes a higher salary or other incentives. However, there are some important considerations to keep in mind before accepting the offer. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Allergen Testing is a Priority for Food Safety Labs
Testing in the food and beverage industry has been primarily centered on detecting microbial and chemical contaminants. These types of tests are vital to the general consumer, as these contaminants can cause illness outbreaks if not detected promptly. However, in the last two decades, food safety and testing labs find themselves not only testing for contaminants but also for food allergens. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Implementing a RIM System and 2 Critical Steps to Success (Part 1)
There are many benefits of implementing an end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) system including the impact on regulatory compliance, speed to market, and revenue. A robust RIM solution can optimize collaboration and streamlined processes driving higher quality work, faster. However, to reap these benefits, organizations need to ensure they have a strategy in place as they embark on this journey. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Revolutionizing the Way Scientists Collaborate and Share Digital Scientific Content
L7 Informatics Inc. is excited to unveil the L7|HUB, a groundbreaking application that is set to revolutionize the way scientists collaborate and share digital scientific content, including data models, instrument connectors, manufacturing recipes, workflows, and many more.
Current systems often fall short when it comes to collaboration and managing and sharing digital scientific content in a robust and repeatable manner. The L7|HUB changes that by providing scientists with an easy way to collaborate and share digital scientific content with their peers, colleagues, and trading partners. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Rationale For Companies to Upgrade Their LIMS
Although laboratory information management software (LIMS) automatically brings plenty of unique benefits to laboratories, like any technology, they become obsolete over time. Inevitably, a better version of it will be made available after multiple iterations, which will make it necessary to upgrade it in the future. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - How QLIMS is Revolutionizing Your Laboratory: Interview with Jonathan from OnQ Software – PART 3
A Bold Vision For a Significant Mission:
Interviewer: You’ve shared a lot about your philosophy and core values behind developing and evolving your QLIMS into Version 9. If you were to summarize this vision in one sentence, what would be your mission statement?
Jonathan: Our mission is to bring innovation to the scientific community that empowers every scientist to improve outcomes for humanity for a better life. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Challenges for Women Scientists
Only three in ten scientists worldwide are women. Despite making up about 50 percent of college students in science disciplines, women are underrepresented in technical roles in industry and research, and an even smaller number of women hold leadership and management roles such as lab managers. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Considerations for the Digital Laboratory
A truly digitally enabled environment offers up the potential for generating new revenue streams, and enabling leaner, more intelligent business models.
Learn more about how Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing in digital capabilities and technologies that support labs of today and of the future, and the critical areas you should focus on to develop and maintain the necessary infrastructure for a digitally transformed lab. [Read More]
March 8, 2023 - Logilab ELN and its applications across industries
Logilab ELN is a generic and dependable Laboratory Notebook application software, designed and developed by Agaram Technologies. It provides a fully configurable sheet template with a test-based workflow design to meet the needs of QA/QC and R&D operations for industries including pharmaceutical, life sciences, biopharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, environmental, food, feed, milling, and dairy. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - Importance of Scalability in a LIMS
Imagine waiting a lifetime for an idea to become a reality, and then it is over in 100 trillionths of a second. That’s exactly what happened to a group of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California at 1:03 a.m. on December 5, 2022, when 192 giant lasers blasted a tiny cylinder of hydrogen and achieved an energy gain known as ignition, a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - LIMS – 10 key features to boost your lab
In our new four-part blog series, we explore why you should implement a laboratory information management system (LIMS) in your lab, what factors you need to consider in the selection process, and how to plan your implementation.
Implementing a LIMS in your lab can be hugely beneficial to your workflow, helping track, store, and analyze the data generated by every process. Beyond data, it can also help you manage your lab processes efficiently, enabling greater productivity. But there are many LIMS solutions available, and with so many capabilities on offer, it can be daunting to figure out what your lab needs to thrive. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - Lab Automation; Tomorrow’s Reality is Starting Today
A little over a year ago, Patrick Rose, Director of Product Management at L7 Informatics, participated in an Astrix Digital Transformation Webcast Series. In this series, Astrix Technology Group brings together innovative informatics solutions providers from across the industry that are at the forefront of technology to present cutting-edge solutions that will enable the transformation of your laboratory into the digital lab of the future. Listen to Rose as he looks at how L7 can enable companies to achieve level 4 of the digitalization path towards industry 4.0...[Read More]
February 28, 2023 - Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough: Decades More Research Still Needed
Imagine waiting a lifetime for an idea to become a reality, and then it is over in 100 trillionths of a second. That’s exactly what happened to a group of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California at 1:03 a.m. on December 5, 2022, when 192 giant lasers blasted a tiny cylinder of hydrogen and achieved an energy gain known as ignition, a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - Decentralized Clinical Trials: Measuring the Impact and Gaining Adoption
The drive to establish capabilities cannot come at the expense of measuring meaningful impact. Establishing criteria for success will help guide sponsors in selecting the appropriate decentralized clinical trials (DCT) elements for a given trial to best meet goals for patient recruitment, diversity, and retention, along with the site and sponsor benefits. As sponsors carefully consider different DCT elements and as the industry progresses through to the point of increasing adoption, it’s important to measure both short and long-term value and to determine how to best interpret that value for future decision-making. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - How QLIMS is Revolutionizing Your Laboratory: Interview with Jonathan from OnQ Software – PART 2
OnQ Software has a special interview with Jonathan Gannoulis that focuses on the journey to releasing the QLIMS platform. In part one, we got an inside look at the introduction, initial stages, and journey that led to the creation of QLIMS. In part two, we will dive into how OnQ Software translated its principles into a product, resulting in a LIMS system that revolutionizes laboratory management. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - How Logilab ELN Simplifies Data Capture, Result Entry & Reporting
Test result entry and report generation are two important aspects of laboratory operations. Unfortunately, it is the dire reality that many labs struggle to get both done. Agaram Technologies’ Logilab ELN provides a more efficient way to execute & automate test result entry & report generation in the lab. Here’s a quick overview of how result entry and reporting become easier with Logilab ELN implemented. [Read More]
February 28, 2023 - Tips For Creating A LinkedIn Profile For Science Professionals
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for connecting with recruiters, hiring managers, and potential scientific industry customers. Creating a profile that accurately reflects your expertise, experience, and qualifications is essential. Here are some steps for crafting the perfect LinkedIn profile as a life science professional. [Read More]
February 22, 2023 - Laboratory Informatics in the Textile Manufacturing Industry
Textile manufacturing depends heavily on laboratory testing to both monitor production and help ensure product quality. That requires fast access to information and the ability to generate reports that are meaningful to management, production personnel, and customer support specialists. Through its workflow management, results management, audit trail, and regulatory support functionality, a LIMS system can provide the support textile companies need to streamline lab operations and make it easier to produce, manage, access, and utilize lab data and information while reducing labor costs. [Read More]
February 22, 2023 - LIMS Migration Strategy
The need for better organization of laboratory operations is well known. While today’s selection of commercial laboratory information management systems (LIMS) is a good start to organizing and running a lab, these solutions are only geared toward the management of wet lab operations. Existing solutions are inefficient for data-intensive laboratory operations that require significant bioinformatic data analyses. Therefore, in labs already burdened with the inefficiencies caused by unlinked functional silos, current LIMS solutions do nothing to resolve inefficiencies, and worse, laboratory operations remain fragmented. [Read More]
