In this episode, podcast host David Pechter invites SLAS Technology featured author Dr. Hossam Ibrahim (University College Dublin) to discuss his research on the dissemination of tumor cells to understand the mechanisms behind cancer metastasis. Tune in to hear how the research team developed a migration assay combining 3D models and a physiologically relevant extracellular matrix. Hear about the unique challenges faced by researchers while orchestrating the application of 3D technologies...

Behind the Special Issue: Join podcast host David Pechter as he invites Joseph de Rutte (Partillion Bioscience) to discuss the paper: “Sorting single-cell microcarriers using commercial flow cytometers”. This research was featured in the recent SLAS Technology special issue, Single Cell Analysis Technologies. Listen in as they discuss the unique formation of microscopic, bowl-shaped containers they call nanovials, and the applications of these cell carriers in flow cytometry for functional...

Join SLAS Podcast Host Dave Pechter as he welcomes R. Graham Cooks, Ph.D. (Purdue University) and Nicolás M. Morato (Purdue University) to discuss their research, featured in the latest Issue of SLAS Technology. They are joined by Nathan P. Coussens, Ph.D. (Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research), guest editor of this special issue.   Together, they discuss the article “Automated High-Throughput System Combining Small-Scale Synthesis with Bioassays and Reaction Screening”. This...

Join Jill Hronek, SLAS Director of Marketing and Communications, and Ally Jump, SLAS Publishing Manager, as they speak with SLAS Discovery and SLAS Technology’s respective Editors-in-Chief, Robert M. Campbell, Ph.D., (Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics, Boston, MA USA) and Edward Kai-Hua Chow, Ph.D., (National University of Singapore, Singapore) about SLAS’s new Open Access model for the Society’s two peer-reviewed journals.   Beginning January 1, 2022 both SLAS Discovery and SLAS Technology will...

Recent innovations and accelerating market availability have led to tremendous growth in demand for affordable 3D bioprinter hardware. Podcast host David Pechter invites SLAS Technology August cover authors Roman Voronov and Anh Tong of the New Jersey Institute of Technology to discuss their review of the market, and their predictions about where it is going. This month's SLAS Technology cover article provides essential insights to researchers entering a market flooded with different types...

Podcast Editor David Pechter hosts Jim Collins of the MIT Department of Biological Engineering to discuss his talk on the harnessing of deep learning to fight pathogens.   The future of medicines using synthetic biology is a rapidly expanding field, with applications including engineered diagnostics, gene and cell therapies, and the deployment of mRNA vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The application of deep learning is accelerating this research, facilitating rapid candidate...

Volume 26 Issue 1, February 2021Dave Pechter discusses the February SLAS Technology Special Collection AI in Process Automation with Guest Editor Cenk Undey (Amgen), which includes the following papers:Artificial Intelligence Effecting a Paradigm Shift...

Volume 25 Issue 6, December 2020Dave Pechter discusses the December SLAS Technology Special Collection Advances in Technology to Address COVID-19 with Associate Editor Pak Kin Wong (The Pennsylvania State University), which includes Professor Wong's...

Volume 25 Issue 5, June 2020Dave Pechter discusses with Varun Bhaskar Kothamachu, Ph.D. (Head of Product, Digi.Bio) & Sabrina Zaini (Head of Operations, Digi.Bio) their featured research article, "Role of Digital Microfluidics in Enabling Access to...

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Volume 25 Issue 3, June 2020Dave Pechter discusses with Georges Muller & Yann Barrandon their two featured research articles, "Traceable Impedance-Based Dispensing and Cloning of Living Single Cells" and "Impedance-Based Single-Cell...

Volume 25 Issue 2, April 2020Dave Pechter discusses with Agata Blasiak & Theodore Kee regarding their article, "CURATE.AI: Optimizing Personalized Medicine with Artificial Intelligence." The clinical team attending to a patient upon a diagnosis is...

Volume 25 Issue 1, February 2020Dave Pechter discusses with Hideaki Tsutsui & Peter Lillehoj regarding February's Special Issue. Over the last decade, flexible analytical devices have received considerable attention in both academia and industry....

Volume 24 Issue 6, December 2019Dave Pechter discusses with Chao Li the article, "Automated System for Small-Population Single-Particle Processing Enabled by Exclusive Liquid Repellency." Lossless processing and culture of rare cells (e.g., circulating...

SLAS Technology 24.5 October 2019Professors at Johns Hopkins University, Claire Hur and Deok-Ho Kim, discuss their paper, "Engineering Innovations for Fundamental Biology and Translational Medicine."In this special issue of SLAS Technology, the editors...

Volume 24 Issue 4, August 2019UCLA Professor, Dino Di Carlo, discusses his review paper, "Technologies for the Directed Evolution of Cell Therapies." The next generation of therapies is moving beyond the use of small molecules and proteins to using...

SLAS Technology 24.1 February 2019Guest Editor Richard M. Eglen of Corning Life Sciences (Tewksbury, MA, USA) talks about a new collection of reviews and original research reports that illustrate how the combination of human iPS cells and 3D cell...

SLAS Technology 23.6 December 2018University of Kansas researchers Yangjie Wei and Nicholas Larson talk about how they used a steady-state/lifetime fluorescence-based, high-throughput platform to develop a general workflow for direct formulation...

SLAS Technology 23.5 October 2018Guest Editor James M. Gill, II, Ph.D., of BFL Consulting (Madison, CT) talks about how the October 2018 issue of SLAS Technology showcases life sciences researchers who are pioneering the use of powerful yet accessible...

SLAS Technology 23.4 August 2018UCLA’s Coleman Murray, Ph.D., talks about his contribution to the August 2018 special issue of SLAS Technology on Enabling Technology in Cell-Based Therapies by guest editor Chris Puleo and his associates at General...

Volume 23 Issue 3, June 2018Guest Editor Anand D. Jeyasekharan, Ph.D., of the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Centre for Translational Medicine, talks about the SLAS Technology special issue on Quantitative...

Volume 23 Issue 2, April 2018Christian Pylatiuk, Prof. Dr. med., of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, discusses his new article, which describes a zebrafish...

Volume 23 Issue 1, February 2018Meet Elodie Sollier-Christen of Vortex Bioscienes as she talks with SLAS Technology Podcast Editor David Pechter about the groundbreaking technology that earned her the 2017 SLAS Innovation Award.

SLAS Technology 22.6 December 2017Listen to author Weian Zhao of the University of California, Irvine, as he talks about his new article, which summarizes and analyzes representative emerging micro- and nanotechnologies and automated systems for...