Quality Good Laboratory Notebook Practice Laboratory notebooks can be an integral part of a company's controlled documentation but must be managed carefully to ensure quality. John A. DeLucia ...

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 ...

Research shows that 77 percent of lab professionals now use public AI tools alongside their ELN. For many, this is not driven by policy decisions, but by necessity. Governed tools do not yet support ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Electronic laboratory notebooks can be a valuable part of a college science education but are not yet a substitute for traditional paper laboratory notebooks, according to a Duke ...

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 ...

Quick quiz: Your company develops a patentable innovation six months before your competitor. Who is entitled to a U.S. patent for that invention? The answer? It depends. Under U.S. patent law, the ...

Scientists have long depended on pen and paper to record their observations, filling volumes of lab notebooks with their work. While Charles Darwin’s drawings and diagrams or Albert Einstein’s ...

One of the first things I did, upon founding my first company, was to buy a bunch of laboratory notebooks imprinted with our firm’s name. Each new employee was issued a numbered notebook and ...

It seems like there are a good number of people around here working in research, so I thought I could get some good suggestions. Lately I've been thinking that using a electronic notebook could be ...

The use of electronic laboratory notebooks should be supported by all concerned. Too often when errors or cases of fraud occur in science, the lab data required to reconstruct what happened have gone ...

A deeper look at unmanaged AI use, also known as "shadow AI", as a response to workflow friction in laboratories.