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The Pharma Letter PodcastIs there a data capture crisis in biotech?In recent years there has been an explosion of digital tools and platforms in the life sciences industry, designed to improve processes ranging from drug discovery and development, through to registration and commercialization.As with everything in pharma and biotech, the value of these tools hinges on the strength of the underlying data, making it essential to capture research in a robust and reliable way.One UK-based company, Labstep, is helping researchers to accomplish this with a fully automated, cloud-based digital data capture tool.While digital tools to assist medical research already exist...2022-04-0519 min
Working ScientistHow technology can help solve science's reproducibility crisisMachine learning and data management skills can raise your scientific profile and open up career opportunities, Julie Gould discovers.As a biomedical science student, Jake Schofield felt frustrated at the length of time it took to repeat experiments, record results and manage protocols, with most of the work paper-based.In 2016 he and Jan Domanski, a biochemist with programming skills, launched Labstep, an online platform to help scientists record and reproduce experiments.Schofield, now Labstep's CEO, tells Julie Gould how launching a start-up and seeking investor funding has honed his business...2019-04-2615 min