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Promoting a Healthy Environment in the Laboratory

Read time: 5 mins Being conscious of health and safety in the laboratory is crucial to the safety of your research and employees. Pipetting involves repetitive movement and can cause a certain amount of strain on the body. This type of repetitive movement can result in skeletal conditions, fatigue and strain injury. By innovating […]

Compliance Essentials: Navigating Regulatory Requirements with Waters

Read time: 5 mins Compliance to regulatory requirements is more than a legal obligation in a laboratory environment. Industries operating in areas such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and food production face an ever changing landscape of regulatory standards. Laboratory automation eliminates most human errors resulting in more reliable data and improved productivity. Moving to an […]

Exploring the Dynamics of Dynamic Protocols in Research

Read time: 5 mins The world of scientific research is always changing, which means that the need for precision is key in all laboratory settings. To ensure reliable results are achieved, new and innovative methods of conducting research need to be implemented. Dynamic protocols represent a transformative shift, bridging the gap between traditional methods […]

Understanding the Impact of Precise Pipetting in Research

Read time: 5 mins Understanding the importance of precision in research is a key fundamental in laboratory work. This is especially true in fields such as molecular biology, chemistry, and pharmaceuticals. Small errors can have big ramifications, errors that would affect the integrity of the results, leading to unreliable outcomes. Precision Matters: The process […]

Assessing the Repeatability and Quality of an Automated Peptide Mapping Workflow for use with Monoclonal Antibodies

Peptide mapping is a well-established method used in the biopharmaceutical industry to characterize biotherapeutic proteins at the peptide level. Protein samples are enzymatically digested into small peptides, which are separated using high-performance liquid chromatography and coupled with a mass spectrometer to identify the peptides. Resulting data are used to confirm the primary amino acid sequence […]

Maximizing Pipetting Accuracy with Waters Tools

Read Time: 5 min Pipetting Techniques – a quick brief: Pipetting technique is a term that is used to refer to the full scope of a user’s interactions with a pipette as they conduct their experiments. The liquid is drawn into an attached pipette tip, which is uniquely chosen for the volume being handled. […]

The Future of Accuracy – Pipetting Robots in Next-Gen Laboratories

Read Time: 5 min Pipetting Robots – a quick brief: Pipetting robot offers fully automated liquid handling using electronic pipettes and labware holders called Dominos. Using a pipetting robot will allow you to transition from laborious manual pipetting procedures to error-free, fully-robotized lab workflows. Ensuring precision within a lab environment is of key […]

OneLab Insights: Top Tips

Read Time: 5 min OneLab – a quick brief: With OneLab you can easily design and execute experiments from your own PC or Tablet. Using OneLab you will be able to add heating, shaking or centrifugation steps and more. From any computer or tablet you may have at hand. OneLab: Pipetting Tips and […]

A guide to Andrew+ and OneLab

Read Time: 5 min Andrew + and OneLab – a quick brief: Creating the connected laboratory, Andrew+ is part of the OneLab ecosystem, executing laboratory protocols designed in OneLab. This flexible architecture enables you to effortlessly transition from laborious manual pipetting procedures to error-free, fully-robotized lab engineering. Advancements within the laboratory environment have […]

Waters: Your Partner for Advanced Laboratory Solutions

Read Time: 5 min Waters Tools- a quick brief: Creating the connected laboratory, Andrew+ is part of the OneLab ecosystem, executing laboratory protocols designed in OneLab. This flexible architecture enables you to effortlessly transition from laborious manual pipetting procedures to error-free, fully-robotized lab engineering. The Future of Advanced Research and Laboratory Solutions The […]

OneLab: Revolutionizing Laboratory Workflows

Read Time: 5 min Laboratory Workflows – a quick brief: A laboratory workflow is a set of procedural rules used to manage and coordinate tasks between people and systems in the lab. Lab workflows for sample management ensure that all steps and requirements in a defined process are correctly followed. Within the scientific […]

The Waters ROI Calculator – a quick guide to the automation ROI tool

Read Time: 3 min The Waters ROI Calculator – a quick brief: The tool helps laboratories estimate the financial benefits of automating sample preparation with the Andrew+ Pipetting Robot. Enhance reproducibility, traceability, and efficiency in lab workflows. How can the Waters ROI Calculator help your organization? The benefits of using the tool are […]

The Science Behind Precise Pipetting: Exploring Automated Pipetting

Read Time: 5 min The use of pipettes in a laboratory – a quick brief: Pipettes are essential tools that are used within a laboratory environment primarily used for the transfer and measurement of liquids. Their uses cover a wide range of practices including sample preparation, serology, cell culture and chemistry. What is […]

Data Integrity and Compliance in a Laboratory Environment – Best Practices

Read Time: 5 min Data Integrity and Compliance quick brief: Data integrity involves the consistency of data handling from beginning to end. Organizations need to implement clear procedures to deal with data compliance. Some measures would include, encryption, access controls, and regular backups. Compliance with regulatory standards (such as GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX) is critical […]

Streamlining Scientific Processes: Laboratory Automation Solutions

Read Time: 5 min Laboratory automation quick brief: Laboratory automation solutions can help streamline processes in the laboratory helping analysts save time, as well as reducing costs and errors. There are several factors to consider when implementing automation within your lab so it is important to assess your laboratory and workflow needs. Laboratory automation […]

Operation Moonshot: Accelerating COVID-19 Testing with LC-MS/MS

Operation Moonshot featured theanalyticalscientist.com Below is a quick overview of the full article. In the summer of 2020, the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) launched Operation Moonshot to support innovative SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic approaches. This collaboration between academia, industry, and the NHS aimed to develop an LC-MS/MS-based test for detecting low levels of […]

Waters Corporation and Biosero Partner to Provide Fully Automated Sample Preparation Workflows

Waters Corporation and Biosero® have partnered to bring together the Andrew+ Pipetting Robot™ with Green Button Go® software, enabling scientists to fully automate their sample preparation workflows. As scientific innovation continues to rapidly advance, enabling scientists with equally innovative tools is a must. Traditional laboratory operations can be limited by unconnected devices and software platforms, […]

Waters Launches New Walk-up Solutions that Further Simplify the Analysis of Biologic Drug Product and Cell Culture Media

Download(opens in new window) News Summary: Updated Waters™ OneLab™ software creates new, easy-to-use walk-up solutions integrating Waters BioAccord™ LC-MS system and Andrew+™ robot with upstream bioreactors to automate routine product quality and cell culture media analyses. New pre-developed LC-MS analytical workflows make it even easier for bioprocess engineers with limited LC-MS experience to accelerate upstream process development […]

Waters Corporation Partners with Associates of Cape Cod to Automate Crucial Endotoxin and Glucan Detection Assays

Waters Corporation is excited to announce a renewed partnership with Associates of Cape Cod, Inc. (ACC) to provide scientists with fully automated solutions for endotoxin and glucan detection assays, 2 critical workflows to provide the world with safe and effective drug conjugates and in-vitro diagnostics.

Waters Corporation Launches PeptideWorksTM Tryptic Protein Digestion Kits

Waters launched its new PeptideWorks Tryptic Protein Digestion Kits to provide biopharma scientists with a comprehensive, automatable solution for rapid sample preparation for peptide mapping. By reducing missed cleavages and autolysis peaks, which can complicate data processing, the kits bolster digestion performance and provide exquisite baselines free from noise. The launch of […]

Waters Automates Solid Phase Extraction of Biological, Food and Environmental Samples with Andrew+ Pipetting Robot

News Summary New Extraction+™ Connected Device automates and documents SPE methods, shaving hours o sample preparation for biological, food, forensic, environmental, and clinical research applications Waters OneLab™ Software guides users through the process of creating, optimizing and transferring sample preparation methods across dierent labs and users. Automated solution frees up scientists to perform other tasks, […]

Covid-19 Testing Accelerated with Andrew+

Since the start-of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been an enormous surge in demand for Covid-19 testing, which has taken us back to an interview with Michela Savoldi-Boles, Chief Technology Officer of Bioside Diagnostics, earlier this year, who talked about the challenges of rapid scale-up during an extremely challenging time in the Lombardy region of Italy, and on Covid-19 […]

Full Traceability and Cloud-sharing Protocols Minimize the Risk of Food Labs Failing a Proficiency Test

Pathogen testing is of major importance to the food industry as there are 31 known bacteria and virus causing pathogens, and more unidentified agents, that cause foodborne illnesses. The elimination of these disease-causing pathogens is a desire for the entire food industry. Food recalls due to pathogen contamination can be disastrous and expensive for all […]

One of the 3Rs stands for ‘Reduce’

“Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.” (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2011). Life-saving therapeutics and vaccines undergo a sophisticated array of both in-vitro, and later in the drug development process, in-vivo testing. Different animal models are used, with the aid of establishing drug safety, as well as parameters […]

Integrating your Omics: Don’t Forget about Sample Prep!

Better data, better experiment, better science..! Effective translational research requires effective and robust multi-omics data integration, in order to ensure complete and correct description of the mechanisms of complex disease such as cancer. This is very much about ‘the sample’ as we have to analyse it using different workflows and sampling methodologies. For example, a […]

Remotely Managing Liquid Handling Automation .. from your Home Office!

One of the ironies of the situation we had find ourselves in today is that many of us are having to work from home in our ‘home offices’ whilst trying to accelerate the development of urgently required diagnostics and therapeutics. Under the most optimal conditions, such R&D activity takes vast resources and time but now that those same teams have had to operate in disparate locations, many away from the familiar laboratory environment, it all becomes even more challenging!

Sharing & repeating protocols – it’s not rocket science!

Leaders in fields ranging from biomedical research to social science have said it again and again: replication matters, and so does sharing protocols. The importance of repeating experiments is central to the career of the scientist. Indeed, it is absolutely crucial, be it for a research publication or for a patent application. In order for a finding to have any significance at all, it needs to be ‘true’ more than the one time that it was done by the original research group. If not, we have to attribute it to either serendipity, sloppy dissemination or, rarely, fraud. A major result may depend on a subtlety in how the experiment was conducted that was neither communicated via a research or indeed, conference paper.

Intuitive lab software that delivers repeatability – OneLab!

OneLab Software is the first web-based application to truly facilitate efficient, centralized programming of connected pipettes and rapid sharing of protocols.

Bluetooth electronic pipettes – repeatable and traceable

The bluetooth electronic pipette ‘is the fulcrum upon which modern biological research is made’.
Discover Pipette+ from Andrew Alliance.

With the Andrew+ pipetting robot, you get all the benefits of automation … without losing control!

Do you feel in control of your lab automation.. or is it controlling you.. or is it parked in the corner of the lab doing nothing at all?

Sustainable advanced tech for life sciences: Connectivity

Andrew Alliance was created in March 2011. The Andrew Pipetting Robot was successfully launched in 2013, and is now in its second generation, called Andrew+. It offers fully automated pipetting, as well as more complex manipulations, using a wide range of accessories and Andrew Alliance electronic pipettes. It executes protocols in Andrew Alliance’s OneLab intelligent cloud-based software environment, within which experiments can be intuitively designed, repeatably executed, and tracked through a rapidly evolving ecosystem of connected devices and accessories that the company is building together with partner organisations.

Pipettes of the Future: Automation for Acceleration

The successful development of current lifesaving therapeutics often starts with the identification of new drug targets using sophisticated instrumentation, bioinformatics, and highly valuable human tissue samples. Hypotheses are rigorously tested, experimental conditions tightly controlled, and increasingly complex data sets meticulously analyzed. This vital step in the research discovery process is critically dependent on the consistent and precise preparation, and handling, of these samples, together with often costly reagents.

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