New York Labs: Are You Ready for Legalization?
Within a few months, financial and political priorities may finally align behind New York’s legalization of adult-use recreational and nutraceutical cannabis. New legislation will create significant opportunities for laboratories with experience in food and drug testing. But regulatory concerns, demand for high throughput and other factors mean...
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Paperless Lab – Most Important breakthrough in Next Normal
How does your company manage important lab data? Data management is an important but difficult task for Pharma companies who still follow manual processes. In some Laboratories, researchers and analysts fill complete details in paper notebooks.
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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 19, Issue 7
February 16, 2021 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 19, Issue 7 In This Issue Featured Books COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Featured Content 02/16/2021 - Sunquest Provides Continuous Support Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Sunquest offers a variety of support tools to help labs manage through the COVID-19 pandemic. From molecular LIMS support, to orders and results automation – including pooled testing – to compliant reporting, to broader-scale disease surveillance, we are proud to offer COVID-19 resources across the spectrum of the laboratory workflow. [Read More] 02/16/2021 - Turning Silos into Synergies: L7 Informatics Pioneers a Better…Laboratory Technology Planning and Management: The Practice of Laboratory Systems Engineering
This guide by laboratory automation veteran Joe Liscouski takes an updated look at the state of implementing laboratory automation, with a strong emphasis on the importance of planning and management as early as possible. It also addresses the need for laboratory systems engineers (LSEs)—an update from laboratory automation engineers (LAEs)—and the institutional push required to develop educational opportunities for those LSEs. After looking at labs then and now, the author examines the transition to more automated labs, followed by seven detailed goals required for planning and managing that transition. He then closes by discussing LSEs and their education, concluding finally that "laboratory technology challenges can be addressed through planning activities using a series of goals," and that the lab of the future will implement those goals as early as possible, with the help of well-qualified LSEs fluent in both laboratory science and IT.
Kalleid at SLAS 2021
Kalleid was pleased to be an exhibitor at the 2021 SLAS International Conference and Exhibition on January 25th-27th. Since its inception in 2010, SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation Screening) has become the premier international community dedicated to advancing life sciences research, drug discovery, and laboratory technology through education, knowledge exchange, and global community building.
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: The New Challenge for Laboratories
Three new variants in the constantly-evolving SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have become a cause for concern among health officials worldwide. Although probably not more lethal than existing strains, higher transmissibility rates have stressed public health systems in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil. Three of the authorized SARS-CoV-2...
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Sunquest Physician Portal for pooled testing
As the demand for COVID-19 testing has increased, Sunquest has enhanced our industry-leading physician portal offering with the capability to process pooled tests – not just for COVID-19 but for any test that allows for pooling.
These States May Need Canna Testing Labs in 2021
Last year’s elections saw voters in five states approve broader legalization of marijuana and cannabis products. That momentum will continue in 2021 as those states implement the new laws and several more states head down the path to legalization. Testing labs have the resources needed to support their states’ growing cannabis industries...
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CSols Validation Templates to Ensure all the Steps in Each CSV Process are Covered
CSols is now offering a robust suite of customizable validation templates to help guide you in your CSV efforts.
The current templates available are IQ Protocol, OQ Protocol, PQ Protocol, Validation Plan, and Validation Summary Report. Additional forms to follow.
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 19, Issue 6
February 10, 2021 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 19, Issue 6 In This Issue Featured Books The Complete Guide to LIMS and Laboratory Informatics: 2020 Edition Featured Content 02/10/2021 - NEOTECH Suppliers to distribute QLIMS in Pakistan and the Gulf area OnQ Software, a market leading manufacturer of LIMS has today announced an exciting new partnership with NEOTECH Suppliers PVT LIMITED. The agreement involves the distribution of OnQ Software’s QLIMS into the Gulf Area and Pakistan market to further expand its European presence. [Read More] 02/10/2021 - Abbott Informatics Announces the Release of STARLIMS SDMS V12.2Abbott Informatics is pleased to announce…Considerations in the Automation of Laboratory Procedures
This white paper by laboratory automation veteran Joe Liscouski examines what it takes to fully realize a fully integrated laboratory informatics infrastructure, a strong pivot for many labs. He begins by discussing the worries and concerns of stakeholders about automation job losses, how AI and machine learning can play a role, and what equipment may be used, He then goes into lengthy discussion about how to specifically plan for automation, and at what level (no, partial, or full automation), as well as what it might cost. The author wraps up with a brief look at the steps required for actual project management. The conclusion? "Just as the manufacturing industries transitioned from cottage industries to production lines and then to integrated production-information systems, the execution of laboratory science has to tread a similar path if the demands for laboratory results are going to be met in a financially responsible manner." This makes "laboratory automation engineering" and planning a critical component of laboratories from the start.
How to Digitalize the Entire Process of Sample Management?
Sample Management involves all the activities during the lifecycle of a sample in the lab. Right from sample login to generation of certification of analysis (COA), all information must be diligently managed. If data management at each stage of the process is done manually, the process itself would take away chunks of time from the QC’s day for analysis/ review/approval and QA for review/ approval.
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