The Black Box Conundrum: Can You Trust Your Instrument Results?
02 September, 2026 by Peter Davis, ATA Scientific | Supplied by: ATA Scientific Pty LtdIncreasing automation and AI risks encouraging users to treat sophisticated instruments as 'black boxes' — systems that generate answers without understanding how those answers were obtained.
From Volume to Value: How Digital Transformation Empowers Global Lab Operations
01 September, 2026 | Supplied by: Medidata Solutions International Asia Pacific Pte LtdHow Ipca Laboratories modernized quality control across multiple sites and 600+ laboratory instruments.
Nanoscale measurement error corrected
25 August, 2026The field of nanoscience has a pervasive error of data analysis that can give misleading insights into how tiny objects' properties depend on their size.
GenAI Helps Engineers Unlock Insights Hidden in Unstructured Data
01 August, 2026 by Stéphane Marouani, Country Manager A/NZ at MathWorks | Supplied by: MathWorks AustraliaGenerative AI (GenAI) can help engineers diagnose issues in seconds. Or predict lab equipment failures before they happen.
Improving external quality assurance (EQA) testing through automation
20 May, 2026 | Supplied by: X-LabThrough pathology partnerships, a healthcare interoperability company has set out to eliminate manual processes for quality assurance testing in laboratories.
Australia signs AI collaboration agreement with Anthropic
09 April, 2026To build on the National AI Plan launched last year, the Australian Government has signed a new collaborative Memorandum of Understanding with Anthropic.
Proteintech FlexAble Oligo-Ready Labeling Kits
09 April, 2026 | Supplied by: United Bioresearch Products Pty LtdProteintech's FlexAble Oligo-Ready Labeling Kits are used for generating Oligo-FlexLinker conjugates, which enable species-specific and high-affinity labelling of antibodies.
Interoperability is critical: preparing for the next pandemic now
25 February, 2026 by Michelle Frazer* | Supplied by: X-LabCOVID-19 highlighted the lack of interoperability in our health systems. Here's how ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) networks could help prepare for the next pandemic.
X-Lab Systems Labgnostic
18 February, 2026 | Supplied by: X-LabX-Lab Systems' Labgnostic is a software solution engineered to streamline connectivity and translate data from disparate pathology IT systems.
Seer Proteograph product suite
02 February, 2026 | Supplied by: Bio-Strategy - Part of DKSH GroupThe Seer Proteograph product suite is intended to represent a meaningful shift in how researchers access biological insight.
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences announces Automata partnership
02 February, 2026Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has announced a strategic partnership with Automata — to accelerate AI-ready laboratory automation.
Oxford Instruments Imaris 11.0 image analysis software
19 December, 2025 | Supplied by: SciTech Pty LtdThe software's approach to reproducible image analysis helps users to boost productivity, enhance results and gain deep insights from complex datasets.
Transforming health care through digitisation
05 December, 2025 by Garry Valenzisi* | Supplied by: Iron MountainAustralian health regulations require medical records to be retained for decades, with physical archives susceptible to degradation over time. Without robust digital backups, the loss of such data has the potential to be permanent.
AI spots hidden objects in chest scans
03 December, 2025A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can spot hard-to-see objects lodged in patients' airways better than expert radiologists.
Drying biofluid droplets used to diagnose disease
28 November, 2025A newly developed workflow relies on the drying process of biofluid droplets to distinguish between normal and abnormal samples.
