Melvin Blaze to Director of Environmental Fate and Metabolism, North America, for the Environmental Risk Sciences Division. As Director, Melvin will oversee the regulatory studies conducted by the North American Environmental Fate and Plant and Animal Metabolism team.
Virtual Event: Leveraging automation technologies to work smarter
16 Apr 2021 -
16 Apr 2021
It is estimated that over 35% of irreproducibility has been attributed to manual errors in the performance of experiments and data reporting, which results in unnecessary costs totaling around $28 billion in order to repeat experimental work (The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research. PLOS Biology 13(6): e1002165).
Automation looks to increase efficiency, speed, and reproducibility and lower costs by replacing manual methods. The majority of results generated with manual manipulation are still captured via paper and susceptible to error. If you have ever tried to repeat a method from a colleague’s laboratory notebook, you know how challenging this can be and this is compounded if colleagues cannot be physically there to go through it with you.