The use of electronic laboratory notebooks should be supported by all concerned. Too often when errors or cases of fraud occur in science, the lab data required to reconstruct what happened have gone ...

Erin Bedford is a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo and in Chemistry at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) in a co-supervised program. I’ve always had a ...

The breakdown of traditional R&D silos in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies has accelerated the drug discovery and development process, but it has also led to an increased need for robust ...

In some countries, Europe, for example, an invention belongs to the first person to file a patent for it. In the United States, the conception determines ownership of an invention. In other words, an ...