THE AMERICAN National Standards Institute (ANSI) has finalised accreditation of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Microplate Standard 6 for Well Bottom Elevation. Known as ANSI/SLAS 6-2012, this new standard defines terminology and measurement protocols for well bottom…
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Looking for this year’s top lab automation developments
EACH year, Jala, the journal of laboratory automation, seeks the top 10 technological breakthroughs in the field in order to recognise their contribution. The Jala Ten embraces laboratory automation and robotics as well as a broad range of related technologies,…
Abstracts invited for SLAS 2013
THE SOCIETY for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is now accepting abstracts for presentations at SLAS2013, its second annual conference and exhibition. Areas of interest include clinical diagnostics, drug discovery and development, forensics, food and agricultural sciences, and petrochemicals and…
Keynote speakers announced for second SLAS conference
NOBEL winner Harry Kroto joins biomedical engineer Mehmet Toner and TV journalist Charles Sabine as a keynote speaker for the second annual conference and exhibition of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), to be held 12-16 January 2013…
Innovation prize for lung-on-a-chip
A PODIUM presentation describing a ‘Human breathing Lung-on-a-chip for drug screening and nanotoxicity’ has been named as the winner of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)’s 2012 innovation award. The presentation, by Dan Dongeun Huh of Harvard University,…
Young researchers win 2012 SLAS awards
THE SOCIETY for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has named the four recipients of its 2012 Young Scientist Awards. They are Brian Cox (not the TV science celebrity, but a namesake at the University of Toronto); Lauren Drowley of AstraZeneca;…