Top 10 Innovations 2012
December 1, 2012 - The Scientist’s 5th installment of its annual competition attracted submissions from across the life science spectrum. Here are the best and brightest products of the year.
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Lab 2.0 - Apps and software for improving lab productivity
The Scientist - December 1, 2012 - When William Mair became a principal investigator and set up his own lab, he knew he wanted to manage it better than other large labs he had worked in or known. He wanted his students to get input from him more often than at monthly lab meetings, but he also wanted them to be able to manage their own projects and take charge of their experimental progress.
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Macmillan Publishers' Investing Division Backs Lab Software Company BioData
July 17, 2012 - Digital Science, the investing division of publishing giant Macmillan Publishers Ltd., has invested in Tel Aviv, Israel-based BioData Ltd., which makes a suite of software to manage the day-to-day operations and preserve the work of research laboratories.
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How The iPad Helps Scientists Do Their Jobs
July 9, 2012 - Andrea Holme, a biologist at the University of Eastern Finland, has dispensed with those notebooks, turning instead to LabGuru. She can enter her protocols at the service’s website, then tote her iPad into the lab, open up the LabGuru app, and get to work. The app not only guides her experiments, it lets her record results, and syncs the data back to the web application so she can later analyze information at her computer.
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Going Paperless: The Digital Lab
January 26, 2012 - Lab-management software and electronic notebooks are here — and this time, it's more than just talk.
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LabGuru Offers Project Management For Science People
TechCrunch - January 18, 2012 - Science People AKA Scientists need project management, too. At least that’s what Macmillan, a major science publisher, thinks so they’ve created a new business unit, Digital Science to push their Basecamp-like lab products. Take, for example, their new site, LabGuru. This site offers collaborative project planning and document storage for labs, allowing science people to work together on major projects.
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Publishing giant Macmillan buys BioData
January 3, 2011 - Israeli start-up BioData Ltd. has been acquired by Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Sources inform 'Globes' that the deal totaled $5-10 million for more than half of BioData's shares, reflecting a company value of up to $20 million. BioData declined to comment on the figure.
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Nature's Parent Publisher Launches Research Software and Data Business
December 10, 2010 - Macmillan Publishers has launched a new business called Digital Science that will provide software tools and services to scientists, managers, and funders, the company said this week. Macmillan, which also owns the Nature Publishing Group, said that Digital Science will focus on "technology-based solutions for research rather than scientific content."
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