February 23, 2021 - Antibody Testing: The Next Phase?
Antibody testing will become more important as vaccines start to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control. New serology tests with high specificity for SARS-CoV-2 not only confirm past infections or immunizations but also quantitatively measure antibody concentrations. These capabilities enable widespread antibody surveillance, plasma screening ...
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February 23, 2021 - 8 Ways a LIMS Adds Value to Your Lab
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is evidently a necessity for laboratories to manage their daily operations with greater efficiency. Pharma companies strive to ensure compliance, increase productivity, and align thoroughly with standard processes.
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February 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]
February 16, 2021 - Turning Silos into Synergies: L7 Informatics Pioneers a Better Way for Precision Diagnostics Process and Data Management
Rapid advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have revolutionized the study of genomics and molecular biology, enabling scientists to analyze genetic variants that are associated with diseases.
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February 16, 2021 - Risk-based Assessments in Laboratories
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.
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February 16, 2021 - 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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February 16, 2021 - 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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February 10, 2021 - 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.
February 10, 2021 - 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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February 10, 2021 - 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.
February 10, 2021 - 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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February 10, 2021 - 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.
February 2, 2021 - 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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February 2, 2021 - Sunquest Physician Portal for Sunquest Mitogen LIMS
For molecular labs wanting to extend their reach, the Sunquest Physician Portal is your answer. Connect with physicians, grow your testing volume, capture complete order information, improve patient safety, and deliver reliable results.
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February 2, 2021 - RFID Functionality in Your LabWare LIMS
In our more than 200 person-years of experience with LabWare LIMS™, we’ve seen a lot of creative ways to derive business value from a LabWare system. Some are the easy wins, like instrument integration for improved automation or data visualization and dashboards for improved understanding of results.
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February 2, 2021 - Canna Testing Labs: Outlaw Labs Must Ride Into The Sunset
The cannabis industry works hard to convince regulators, politicians and the public that their business is a responsible and legitimate part of the economy. But outlaw testing labs are producing sloppy, inconsistent results and even fake reports – unfairly affecting the reputations of the vast majority of honest and professional labs...
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February 2, 2021 - Streamline Digital Workflows with the New IDBS E-WorkBook Cloud
IDBS E-WorkBook Cloud is a scalable, enterprise-ready SaaS laboratory informatics platform that supports R&D, biologics development, and drug discovery scientific data management. It combines the functionality of the best laboratory informatics platforms, beyond the traditional LIMS, ELN or LES.
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February 2, 2021 - Managing Remote Lab Work With A Remote-enabled LIMS
More and more people are working remotely and from their home offices in 2021. Remote Working is something we think our life sciences industry can benefit from too. Moving your laboratory tasks to a remote working environment seems challenging but we argue not impossible. Read what we think about remote lab work here and share your thoughts and comment below.
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February 2, 2021 - How PCR and Antigen Testing Can Work Together for Lab COVID Testing
Widespread COVID-19 screening programs are the only way many businesses, schools and other organizations can keep running. Using PCR tests, however, often creates unmanageable turnaround times as clients must send samples to labs, then wait for them to be received, prepped, batched, tested and their results reported. Rapid antigen tests, while not quite as accurate, are speedy and good...
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January 26, 2021 - Avoiding Food Crime in the Supply Chain
While Quality Assurance and Quality Control are vital parts of the work laboratories carry out in the food and drink sector, their role in avoiding and preventing food crime should not be overlooked and neither should the role of the Laboratory Information Management System in this vital area.
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