LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a provider of laboratory informatics software solutions, has signaled a turn towards the future with its appointment of digital transformation veteran Mikael Hagstroem as its new chief executive officer. We spoke to Mikael to find out more.

As COVID-19 vaccination programs kick into gear, private and public workplaces are weighing up the risks and benefits of asking employees to return to the office. Affinity Empowering Inc, who offer workplace eHealth compliance services, have rolled out an end-to-end COVID-19 testing program to assist employers in their return to work protocols. We spoke to Affinity CEO Scott Storrer to find out more.

A novel combination of miniaturized purification technology, automation and software presents an opportunity to drastically shorten drug or vaccine development timelines by rethinking how purification processes are refined.

Technology Networks interviewed Dr Andrew Soltan, NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at the John Radcliffe Hospital, to learn more about the CURIAL algorithm and how it is being used alongside Sight OLO, Sight Diagnostics’ machine vision-based blood analyzer, to rapidly triage patients and support infection control within hospitals.

We spoke to ACD/Labs, which specializes in informatics platforms for analytical data handling. Andrew Anderson, ACD/Labs’ vice president for innovation and informatics strategy, outlined the challenges analytical chemists have faced during the pandemic and how informatics tools can help to make digital strategies, both remote and in the lab, more streamlined.

Western blotting has been a core technique in molecular biology for many years, however, optimization and reproducibility can be problematic. We spoke to Dr Alexandre Lucas about the automation of western blotting and the difference this advance is making to research.

As we begin to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat of antimicrobial resistance has not gone away and remains a priority. Precision medicine company OpGen use molecular diagnostics and informatics to identify AMR before it can spread. To find out more, Technology Networks caught up with OpGen's CEO Oliver Schacht.

UX designers are keen to help researchers adapt lab technology to fit remote working practices and prevent instances where company technology is bypassed completely. Here are five trends we expect to see in user experience in the life sciences (UXLS) post-COVID-19.

LIMS are powerful, but often complex tools. These big software packages can’t meet every need, and a growing field of companies has sprung up to offer labs supplementary tools. We spoke to Robert Jackson, Director of Delivery at LIMS Wizards, to find out more.

Technology Networks recently interviewed Viswa Colluru, founder and CEO of Enveda Biosciences, to find out how the company is “harnessing the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges”.