Computing hardware/software

The Black Box Conundrum: Can You Trust Your Instrument Results?

02 September, 2026 by Peter Davis, ATA Scientific | Supplied by: ATA Scientific Pty Ltd

Increasing 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 Ltd

How Ipca Laboratories modernized quality control across multiple sites and 600+ laboratory instruments.


Nanoscale measurement error corrected

25 August, 2026

The 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 Australia

Generative 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-Lab

Through 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, 2026

To 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 Ltd

Proteintech'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-Lab

COVID-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-Lab

X-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 Group

The 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, 2026

Beckman 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 Ltd

The 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 Mountain

Australian 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, 2025

A 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, 2025

A newly developed workflow relies on the drying process of biofluid droplets to distinguish between normal and abnormal samples.


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