Manual pipetting puts lab workers at risk of developing a repetitive strain injury (RSI). Here’s an infographic showing 10 ways to prevent it. Table of Contents What is Repetitive Strain Injury? Manual Pipetting May Contribute to RSI How You Can Make Manual Pipetting More Comfortable Optimize… Read More

Good quality DNA is key to many life science applications. Automation can help ensure it. Here’s how. Next generation sequencing (NGS) and qPCR applications dominate many areas of life science today, from basic research to clinical diagnostics and drug discovery. These applications are highly sensitive and require scientists to start… Read More

Robots handle repetitive lab tasks so you don’t have to. Here’s how to successfully pitch the idea to your team. Despite the ominous predictions – and we’ve all heard them! – robots are not here to take your job, or the job of anyone else in your lab. Why? Because… Read More

Need to do an n-transfer with multiple pipette volumes in the same protocol? Here’s a hack using the OT-2 and electronic pipettes. OT-2 users frequently run protocols requiring steps for well-to-well transfers necessitating a single-channel pipette, as well as larger distribution transfers made most efficient with the use of a… Read More

If you are working without normal access to your lab, here are 6 resources to help you stay productive. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way many life scientists work. Due to increased social distancing policies, researchers are now having to adjust to meeting remotely with their teams, working reduced… Read More

The coronavirus pandemic offers life science researchers unprecedented opportunities. Here are 9 resources to help you maximize those opportunities. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the landscape of life science by consuming the majority of research opportunities for the near future. But it is also giving researchers unprecedented opportunities for collaboration,… Read More

Read how Correlia Biosystems is accelerating the efficiency and accuracy of immunoassays, and then watch the webinar with Correlia CSO, Samuel Tia, to see how they are using lab automation in their groundbreaking approach. The rapid growth of protein-based biomedical research has resulted in a need to measure protein data… Read More

In this webinar, Dr. Michael Mina shares his team’s efforts to overcome challenges in scaling infectious disease surveillance using serological testing and flexible automation. In our increasingly connected world, infectious disease outbreaks have become all too common and costly. Quick identification of the next outbreak will require a new public… Read More

Boston University DAMPLab’s Lead Lab Specialist Rita Chen created a prototype COVID-19 diagnostics workflow using Opentrons in three months. Here’s how. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston University’s Design, Automation, Manufacturing, and Prototyping (DAMP) Lab was tasked with creating a diagnostics workflow in three months. DAMPLab’s… Read More

Here’s a directory of customized open-source 3D printed labware and accessories for the OT-2. Opentrons believes every scientist should have access to the tools they need for their research – it’s why all of our software and hardware is open-source. It’s also why many researchers have created customized… Read More