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 ...

In the fall of 2014, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers gained a new option for storing and organizing experimental data, notes and procedures: the campus Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) system ...

In some countries, Europe, for example, an invention belongs to the first person to file a patent for it. In the United States, the conception determines ownership of an invention. In other words, an ...

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 ...

Electronic lab notebook research tools have moved from a lab convenience to a prerequisite for machine learning-ready data. Paper notebooks were built for a world where reproducibility meant another ...

Laboratory notebooks contain a literal wealth of information to advance research enterprise-wide, to protect and support patents, and to streamline the regulatory submissions process—if only they ...