7 of the top technology stories and latest industry developments in lab automation, AI, and digital transformation
Gain insights from automation experts, access free downloads, webinars, and more to help your lab go paperless
14 Jul 2022
As part of our new Lab Automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Digital Transformation Special Feature, we have pulled together a selection of the top interviews and resources about the latest instruments and software designed to help you streamline your laboratory.
Read on to explore recent learnings in how automation can be used to transform clinical laboratory operations, hear from experts about the steps you can take to embrace digitalization in the lab, download resources highlighting automation solutions, and much more.
CLINICAL TESTING: Get a closer look at how automation can transform clinical operations
In this SelectScience article, we take you inside one of India’s most prolific diagnostic laboratories, Dr Lal PathLabs, and demonstrate how the team has leveraged several automation systems to scale up its operations while keeping its high standards of accuracy.
PATIENT CARE: How to streamline your clinical flow cytometry
In this SelectScience article, we spoke to a clinical flow cytometry expert to find out how labs can overcome some of the challenges encountered when implementing new automation platforms, including the benefits these platforms can have in delivering accurate results to clinicians and patients faster.
EMRACE DIGITALIZATION: Find out how your lab can ‘go digital’
Paperless processes are now becoming the norm. In this exclusive SelectScience article, we spoke to a team of data science experts, to find out how lab users and start-up companies can effectively transition to a digital lab, and how a dedicated electronic lab notebook has been designed to bring together all your lab needs into one simple solution.
BIOBANKING: Maximize space with new storage plates
Learn about a new range of automation-compatible plates from Irish Life Sciences, designed to help you store biobank samples safely and securely, while maximizing storage space.
EFFICIENT OSMOMETRY: Explore the future of osmometry
Discover the automated osmometer technology that is convenient, quick, and reliable. Ideal for mid- to high-volume laboratories, the system allows you to set up tests, walk away, and prioritize other tasks without missing a beat.
ELECTRONIC NOTEBOOKS: Improving efficiency of R&D
This presentation demonstrates how the introduction of an electronic lab notebook into your lab could optimize your specialty chemical innovation, including comprehensive workflows for chemistry, formulations, analytical testing, and more.
SAMPLE PREPARATION: A smart solution to automate your processes
Your delicate laboratory processes require a precise, yet flexible system. Find out how the innovative IVARO Tube Handler is an automation system that can be perfectly adapted for filling, labelling, scanning, sorting, and weighing.
Top free webinars on automation and digital transformation:
- Taking your first steps towards automation: Simple, intuitive, and affordable liquid handling – available to watch on-demand now»
- Materials innovation: How can informatics solutions improve efficiency in the specialty chemicals industry – available to watch on-demand now»
- Point-of-care IT connectivity and data management webinar series – all sessions available to watch on-demand now»
- Simple automation for everyday tasks – available to watch on-demand now»
- The Orchestrated Lab Webinar Series: How can processes be streamlined, automation be leveraged, data silos be eliminated, and ecosystems be connected? – available to watch on-demand now»
Expert-led videos on machine learning, automation solutions, and more:
- Behind the automation: Partnering for success – In this video, gain insights into how Siemens Healthineers helped the largest private reference lab in Scandinavia, Fürst Medisinsk Laboratorium, adopt total lab automation.
- Machine learning in healthcare: How the principles of consumer-focused AI could save lives – Prof. Regina Barzilay, MIT Jameel Clinic, describes how she first came to apply her expertise in machine learning to the medical field and how her research has evolved to take on some of the major challenges in healthcare.
- Digitizing chemistry to create artificial lifeforms – Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow, describes his groups’ far-reaching project to explore the origin of life and its objectives to create artificial lifeforms, discover aliens, and digitize chemistry.
Free downloads to help your lab embrace automation:
- Flow cytometry sample preparation automated from start-to-finish – Discover the CellMek SPS Sample Preparation System, from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, which automates your workflow, from sample loading to samples ready to analyze by flow cytometry, without user intervention. Download now»
- Frictionless healthcare: Why it matters and how to get there – Siemens Healthineers explores emerging issues in healthcare and provides you with practical solutions to today’s most pressing challenges. Download now»
- Automated sample prep workflows: Save money and time – In this SelectScience eBook, discover automated sample preparation workflows for food, environmental, pharma, and life science applications, that will help you to improve data quality, productivity and cost efficiency. Download now»
- Make a seamless transition to automated liquid handling – This SelectScience guide provides all the information you need to choose the best technologies for your lab, while making the transition to automated liquid handling as smooth as possible. Download now»
Your recommendations:
Find out what other researchers and clinicians around the world are saying about the latest equipment and technologies driving automation. Here, Ai Chin Yeoh, University Malaya Medical Central, shares their opinion on the Atellica® Solution by Siemens Healthineers.
Find more news and resources in our Lab Automation, AI, and Digital Transformation Special Feature»
