New immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment, and the CRISPR technology for editing genetic material in cells, are among the most sophisticated research strategies scientists are using in their quest to defeat disease.
But as researchers develop these techniques based on manipulating biological molecules, they may still be recording their experimental results by a method untouched by technological advances-–in a paper lab notebook.
That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling, where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work… Read more »
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