Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 23, Issue 40

October 6, 2025 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 23, Issue 40   In This Issue  Featured Books LIMS Selection Guide for ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories  Featured Content 4 Ways Your Sample Management System is Derailing Your Lab’s PotentialWhether in pharma, diagnostics, or biobanking, lab success depends on meeting goals for speed, quality, and accountability. Yet manual workflows and fragmented data slow progress, while growing sample complexity, cross-site collaboration, and evolving regulations expose the limits of outdated sample management. [Read More] End of Year Lab Management: Strategies to Close the Year Strong and Start FreshEffective end of year lab management isn’t just…

4 Ways Your Sample Management System is Derailing Your Lab’s Potential

Whether in pharma, diagnostics, or biobanking, lab success depends on meeting goals for speed, quality, and accountability. Yet manual workflows and fragmented data slow progress, while growing sample complexity, cross-site collaboration, and evolving regulations expose the limits of outdated sample management. [Read More]

End of Year Lab Management: Strategies to Close the Year Strong and Start Fresh

Effective end of year lab management isn’t just about December—it begins in October. By using Q4 to review compliance, refresh inventory, recognize teams, update systems, align budgets, and plan strategically, labs reduce risk, improve efficiency, and enter the new year ready to thrive. [Read More]

4 Steps to Improve Your Laboratory’s Traceability

Traceability in a laboratory is essential to ensure the quality and reliability of results. By accurately identifying samples and adopting advanced tracking systems, labs can strengthen traceability and boost operational excellence. Here are four proven strategies to build a more accurate, efficient lab. [Read More]

Maximize Lab Efficiency with a Scientific Data Platform

A Scientific Data Platform addresses the challenges of disorganized and siloed lab data. By centralizing information, it streamlines collaboration, enhances analysis, and automates workflows. The result is greater efficiency, fewer errors, and accelerated research across today’s fast-paced labs. [Read More]

FDA Modernization Act 2.0: Accelerate Readiness with an Advanced LIMS Solution

In April 2025, clinical research entered a new phase as the FDA released its Roadmap to Reducing Animal Testing and the NIH launched ORIVA to scale human-relevant models. These efforts reflect a growing consensus that animal studies often fail to predict human outcomes and that safer, faster alternatives are needed. [Read More]

Laboratory Data Privacy in the Age of AI: Protecting Science, Patients, and Trust

Laboratories today face growing risks to data privacy as AI, cloud platforms, and global collaboration expand. Protecting sensitive information requires secure systems, role-based access, encryption, automated compliance, and strong training programs to safeguard science, patients, and trust. [Read More]

The Many Dialects of Lab Informatics

Lab informatics may share core terms like samples and workflows, but each lab speaks its own “dialect.” QC labs focus on compliance, research labs value flexibility, clinical labs need speed, and forensic labs demand traceability. Recognizing these differences helps build systems that enable collaboration and innovation across domains. [Read More]

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 23, Issue 39

September 29, 2025 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 23, Issue 39   In This Issue  Featured Books LIMS Selection Guide for ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories  Featured Content Environmental Lab Innovations: Leading the Way to a Sustainable FutureEnvironmental labs are transforming science and sustainability through innovations like real-time monitoring, eDNA analysis, advanced spectrometry, robotics, AI, and cloud platforms. These advancements improve compliance, accelerate testing, and help protect ecosystems, communities, and natural resources. [Read More] Decoding the Digital Lab With CSols: Season 1, Episode 10: What to Know Before Moving Your LIMS to the CloudThis must-listen episode explores a hot topic for lab…

Environmental Lab Innovations: Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future

Environmental labs are transforming science and sustainability through innovations like real-time monitoring, eDNA analysis, advanced spectrometry, robotics, AI, and cloud platforms. These advancements improve compliance, accelerate testing, and help protect ecosystems, communities, and natural resources. [Read More]

How does a LIMS help with ISO 17025 certification?

ISO 17025 demands rigorous traceability, data integrity, quality control, calibration oversight, corrective action logging, and reporting. A LIMS helps by automating and centralizing these processes: tracking samples, controlling access, managing calibrations and deviations, and generating compliant reports. [Read More]

SAPIO: Sapio ELaiN: The AI Co-Scientist for R&D

Sapio ELaiN, the first AI native lab notebook, transforms research by acting as your co-scientist. Discover natural language experiment design, automated analysis and visualization, built-in scientific intelligence, compliance-ready audit trails, and more to accelerate discovery beyond traditional ELNs. [Read More]