Lab Automation In-Depth Focus 2018

• The value of automating assays in screening
  The screening of biological assays against compound libraries in a high-throughput fashion is a widely employed methodology to identify chemical starting points in drug discovery. Sheraz Gul and Giulia Pasini describe a commonly used cell viability assay in manual and automated fashion and provide data from each scenario.
• Lab automation and robotics – accelerating the pace of antimicrobial therapy
  Antibiotic resistance has become one of the biggest global public health threats that affects countless human lives, irrespective of age, sex, time and country. Pushpanathan Muthuirulan describes how lab automation has accelerated pharmaceutical research by simplifying operations, reducing manual tasks and increasing the efficiency, quality and reproducibility of results.