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LabArchives Completes SOC2 Audit for Electronic Lab Notebook
What is one of the biggest concerns we hear from researchers and research admins and research administration? How can I be sure that the data I am collecting and working with stays confidential and remains unchanged once I have put it in place. Said differently, the...
2020 LabArchives Research Wrap-up
We appreciate the scientists, researchers, primary investigators, lab managers and other professionals who use our platform to get their work done. 2020 was full of twists and turns. On a basic level, it changed what research ‘looks’ like. While the year was...
2020 LabArchives Education Wrap-up
We appreciate the thousands of instructors, students and teaching assistants who use our platform to get their work done. 2020 was full of twists and turns. On a basic level, it changed what education ‘looks’ like. While the year was challenging, it reinforced why we...
A tool for the sciences and humanities
While they have very different roles, Courtney Kearney and Marcello Canuto both straddle the divide between hard sciences and humanities in their work at Tulane University. Courtney, the university’s Scholarly Engagement Librarian, works with faculty and students in...
Cassava and collaborating across continents
Cassava is a highly important crop in many parts of the world. Two years ago in Africa, it even surpassed the main staple, corn, in terms of volume planted. While this tuber is highly resilient, able to grow even in the harshest conditions it still suffers from many...
Modern humans’ homeland: a new paper from Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Eva Chan, bioinformatician at Garvan Institute of Medical Research, is an ace at making sense of the massive genomic data sets her research group works with. Most recently, Eva and the team have used this data to hypothesize that our early ancestors originated in...
Follow your nose – even in the lab
Debby Silver’s lab at Duke University uses a two pronged approach to better understand how the brain forms. As a Primary Investigator (PI), Debby manages a team of thirteen including postdocs, PhD students, technicians and undergraduates. With microscopy, genomics and...
LabArchives Education Boot Camp
Build, organize and manage your course in LabArchives. The fall semester is nearly over. Cue ‘sigh of relief’. We're here to help as you continue to adjust to this normal and as you begin to plan winter and spring courses. LabArchives online tools make it easy to...
Coherent Digital: taming wild content to push research further
Wild content. You may not know the term but you’ve absolutely experienced it. It’s the family photo album you’ve never gotten around to organizing. It’s your twitter feed. It’s every internet black hole you’ve ever fallen down. Wild content is all around us. In...
Breaking down vaccine development with an assay expert
Maria Dennis, a research analyst in the Permar Lab at Duke University Medical School, is developing vaccines that prevent the spread of HIV from mother to child during the perinatal period. These days Maria and her team work in shifts, only coming into the lab when...
Changes to LabArchives Scheduler
The easiest way to organize people, places and things - how we’re ensuring it’s a solution that’s here to stay. Our goal at LabArchives is to support Better Science with innovative and user friendly online tools - tools that can continuously evolve to support our...
Ticks: a global issue
Ticks: a global issue Veterinary Parasitologist, Shona Chandra, is finishing up her PhD at the University of Sydney. While you may not be familiar with Shona's field, you are likely familiar with her chosen subjects: ticks. We caught up with Shona to learn more about...
User Group Meeting: UK + Europe + Middle East
In July, over 650 LabArchives users attended our first virtual user group meeting! LabArchives users often ask us for examples of how others use the platform. It’s actually the most frequent request we get. With that we decided to bring examples to our users and to...
Ed: two tools you’re not using but should be in 2020
Delivering an effective STEM course to students during COVID-19 is no easy task. Trying to keep students distanced yet engaged is tricky - organization is key. Whether your students are on campus, at home, or a bit of both - these two tools can help keep everyone...
Chemical Kitchen
Chemical Kitchen, an entry level course at Imperial College London, is the innovative STEM course that 2020 absolutely requires. In it, students learn good laboratory practice through a simple and accessible activity - cooking. Designed by Jakub Radzikowski and...
Two online tools you’re not using but should be in 2020
Effective STEM research requires collaboration. COVID-19 requires distance. The two feel at odds with one another everyday. Whether your lab is directly involved with COVID-19 research or not, staying organized in the lab is more important than ever. These two tools...
Remote education workaround: the data generator
COVID-19 has challenged the traditional classroom set up - solutions and workarounds have emerged from all corners. One LabArchives instructor has designed a data generator that helps to ensure experimental design and independent analysis remain at the...
Using an ELN – what’s the point?
Authenticity is one of many buzzwords in the education space and it relates to one very important question which is, "What's the point?" While it can be tongue in cheek, this question is worth asking early and often when it comes to designing authentic courses that...
LabArchives Virtual User Group
LabArchives users often ask us for examples of how others use the platform. It's actually the most frequent request we get. With that we decided to bring examples to our users and to actually connect with one another via virtual meeting and live Q&A. Last month,...
Finding success in the lab despite high turnover and COVID-19
Projects at Jonathon Hill’s lab at Brigham Young University generally take between two and five years to complete and his team of about twenty is composed entirely of undergraduate researchers. The setup inherently sees a lot of turnover but because Jonathon plans for...
CRISPR…it’s not magic
When Dr. Julia Raizen started graduate school in the 1980’s, the term ‘molecular biology’ hardly existed. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR), now commonly used in biology and medicine, had just been invented and was a slow, laborious process. While studying a class of...