

BioTechX: Data. AI. Precision. Innovation. For Pharma, Healthcare & Partners
We’ll be at Stand 110 discussing how automation is shaping the labs of the future.
BioTechX successfully brings together an amalgamation of genomics, translational medicine, data scientists, IT, bioinformaticians, cheminformaticians, clinicians, healthcare and pharma companies. The event will showcase innovation, demonstrate success and break through the obstacles and barriers to ensure that the innovations in genomics and big data, enter the clinic with speed and efficiency.
We’ll be at Stand 110 discussing how automation is shaping the labs of the future – with a talk by our Director of Product, Russ Green highlighting ways to digitally transform labs with automation in mind.
Accelerating new drug discovery through automation.
Complete colony counting automation for environmental testing.
Complete automated workflow solution for ELISA assays.
Quality control in genomic workflows

Automating media exchange in cell culture workflows

News and Insights

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Find out how open, integrated automation can accelerate the ELISA validation process…
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Explore the value of reproducibility in the lab, and how automation can…
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How we reimagined the lab bench for automation.
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Discover how lab turnaround time can be reduced through automation, without compromising…
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Discover how automation can facilitate repetitive maintenance of cell line processes, enhancing…
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Discover the advantages of automated liquid handling in cell culture, from reduced…
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Sonia Jassi, Drug Discovery and Synthetic Biology Lead at Automata, examines how gene…
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Discover how you can reduce time-intensive processes, improve data quality and optimise…
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Learn how you can optimise common lab quality control processes through automation,…
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Discover the advantages of automated liquid handling in cell culture, from reduced…
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How the lessons we learned from manufacturing automation can help supercharge your…
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Russell Green, Director of Product Growth at Automata outlines the four biggest…
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Automating mammalian cell culture can improve the scale and quality of results…
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As cell cultures become more advanced, optimising culture quality is more important…
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As demand for cell culture increases, labs are under pressure to scale…
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Genomic sequencing will revolutionise healthcare over the next decade. We take a…
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We look at what causes errors in biology lab experiments and how…
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Manual colony counting is repetitive and error-prone, but, with automation, it can…
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Downtime in drug discovery labs delay an already long and complex process….
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