Erin Bedford is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and in Chemistry at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program. I’ve always had a ...

The breakdown of traditional R&D silos in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies has accelerated the drug discovery and development process, but it has also led to an increased need for robust ...

Laboratory managers have several responsibilities, including keeping a record of everything that happens, especially their findings. However, manually tracking reports and data using paper notebooks ...

Today it is commonplace for scientists and engineers to generate much of their data and analysis by computer. Yet in most instances laboratories continue to maintain bound laboratory notebooks. While ...

The use of electronic laboratory notebooks should be supported by all concerned. Too often when errors or cases of fraud occur in science, the lab data required to reconstruct what happened have gone ...