Laboratory notebooks are essential components of the scientific process because they allow researchers to record hypotheses, methods, results, and analyses. They also serve as organizational tools and ...

"Scientists maintain notebooks to refer to previous experimental procedures and data-it allows for reproducing protocols and results without reinventing the wheel," says Steven Lazar, senior patent ...

Laboratory managers have several responsibilities, including keeping a record of everything that happens, especially their findings. However, manually tracking reports and data using paper notebooks ...

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) were developed to keep track of experiments and data so that scientists could review their work in a single place and easily reproduce experiments. Many ELNs ...

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 ...

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are widely used by researchers, but legacy versions cannot keep up with the pace of modern AI and data-centric scientific discovery. The latest third generation ...

In the field of materials science, even small variations in experimental parameters and protocols can lead to unwanted changes in the properties of a material. A ground-breaking development in this ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Configuring socially distanced lab spaces for 2,900 general chemistry students was logistically impossible, so Purdue University’s beginning chemistry labs are taking place ...