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We plan to bring you more great, green lab information in 2018!  Please contact us at info@labconscious.com, if you would like us to share an environmentally friendly lab work idea with the Labconscious community.  

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The Wyss Institute Delivers Materials Inspired by Biology and Adopted by Industry
The Wyss Institute Delivers Materials Inspired by Biology and Adopted by Industry

Engineering a new material type is impressive; anticipating long-term health and ecosystem impacts of an engineered material takes real foresight. Within the Harvard University system, the Wyss Institute develops improved, nature-inspired materials to solve real-world problems through concerted engineering and scientific R&D, culminating in commercialization.

Greening Research Labs at Boston Children's Hospital
Greening Research Labs at Boston Children's Hospital

Since launching a grassroots sustainability initiative in 2020, the Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) Green Labs program has expanded, helping to save the equivalent of the energy used by 89 homes each day—and reducing lab freezer failures by 68%. What’s behind all the improvements? A compelling “why.”

Vetting Waste Minimization in Life Science Labs
Vetting Waste Minimization in Life Science Labs

In this interview, NEB sustainability manager, Levi Rogers, shares how taking a closer look at everyday lab workflows can uncover practical, site-specific opportunities to reduce waste—without compromising safety, rigor or productivity. You may find that solutions already exist for your own bench work.  

Sustainability in Scientific Labs: What Happens to Unused Materials?
Sustainability in Scientific Labs: What Happens to Unused Materials?

Scientific laboratories prioritize safety, accuracy, and oftentimes, regulatory compliance.  Meeting these essential priorities creates an unintended consequence: a large amount of unused, unopened laboratory material quietly becomes waste. This widespread issue calls for an easy-to-use system to put lab surplus back into research use, with significant cost savings. This enables laboratories to do more with less while reducing scientific waste. This is the mission of the Wasteless Bio platform.

Can Ensilication Break Biomolecules Free from the Cold Chain?
Can Ensilication Break Biomolecules Free from the Cold Chain?

Ensilication can flip the script on nature by making biomolecule stocks thermostable, including complex biologics that are not amenable to lyophilization. Eliminating cold storage and transport requirements would boost sustainability for biomedical cold chains, biobanking and labs. Recent advances have made it an exciting new option in the life sciences.

Lab Automation and Integrated Platforms
Lab Automation and Integrated Platforms

Get an insider’s look at how research and clinical diagnostics are expanded by integrating software, data and robotics, as well as the opportunities “to dial” in workflows for cost and carbon savings.

Lab Automation with Avinash Gill, Ph.D., Genentech
Lab Automation with Avinash Gill, Ph.D., Genentech

Learn what scientist, Avinash Gill, Ph.D., hopes more people will talk about, as he shares the cutting-edge approaches his team takes to drive the discovery of new medicines, in the first of a three-part series of parallel interviews on strategic lab automation.

Strategic Lab Automation: Unlocking Efficiency, Sustainability, and ROI Across the Research Lifecycle — A three-part series of Parallel Interviews
Strategic Lab Automation: Unlocking Efficiency, Sustainability, and ROI Across the Research Lifecycle — A three-part series of Parallel Interviews

Lab automation is one of the most effective accelerators in life science research and development. Learn how biologists are using AI and automation in our parallel interviews with a select group of experts, and then consider joining them at the Future Labs West Summit.

Lab Automation with Ilja Kuesters, Ph.D. Generate:Biomedicines
Lab Automation with Ilja Kuesters, Ph.D. Generate:Biomedicines

Research that tightly integrates design, build, and test accelerates discovery. Learn about cutting-edge “agent augmented” labs that support scientists with planning, execution, error recovery, and review in this Q&A.

Recycling Lab Equipment Recovers Valuable Raw Materials
Recycling Lab Equipment Recovers Valuable Raw Materials

Electronics recycling is having a moment. Can you guess the undercurrent? Much of it is artificial intelligence/AI. Recycling your obsolete lab equipment has always been an act of good environmental stewardship. That’s even truer now that mining is ramping up globally to supply raw materials for AI infrastructure. The increased demand is a call to lean into e-waste recycling services as an eco-friendlier alternative.