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Animated illustration: a signal moves from a documented record, to step-by-step guidance on a tablet, to a pipetting robot PERSPECTIVES · 4 MIN READ The road to the autonomous lab runs through the bench A busy month for AI that designs and runs experiments points to one lesson: machines can only automate work that someone has captured. Illustration: a test tube at the centre of three steps — guide, record, verify COMPANY · 4 MIN READ Introducing Augmentiv: proof of every experiment, without the paperwork Today we’re opening Augmentiv to labs and research teams. Here’s what we’re building, and why it matters now. Illustration: a published methods card with missing steps marked by question marks, beside a faded replication card PERSPECTIVES · 3 MIN READ Replication needs more than a budget NIH’s new reproducibility program is a welcome signal. But most replications stall long before anyone repeats an experiment. Illustration: a run record with checked steps and a verified stamp PERSPECTIVES · 4 MIN READ Why every result needs a run record A data file tells you what happened. A run record tells you whether to believe it. Illustration: shredded paper strips marked untraceable, next to a run record with time-stamped, checked steps PERSPECTIVES · 4 MIN READ What this year’s warning letters teach labs about records FDA keeps citing the same laboratory failures in 2026. Most of them start with how — and when — the work gets written down. Illustration: a camera view of a well plate with a tracking box around one well TECHNOLOGY · 3 MIN READ What computer vision sees at the bench — and what it doesn’t How our models follow lab work step by step, and the lines we’ve drawn around privacy. Animated illustration: three labs run the same organoid plate; their uneven readouts settle to the same level and each gets a check mark PERSPECTIVES · 3 MIN READ Fewer animal studies, more pressure on the bench FDA’s new rule widens the door for organoids, organ-chips and other human-relevant methods. Here’s what it means for the labs that run them. Illustration: a messy stack of paperwork turning into one clean auto-recorded record PERSPECTIVES · 3 MIN READ Documentation is eating the lab’s day The people best at running experiments spend a huge share of their time writing about them. It doesn’t have to be that way. Illustration: a method and run record card travelling between a current lab and a new lab PERSPECTIVES · 3 MIN READ BIOSECURE means more tech transfers. Plan the handoff now A list of restricted biotech companies is due around year-end. Sponsors moving work to new labs should start with the method, not the contract. Illustration: a network of verified labs connected to Augmentiv COMPANY · 3 MIN READ Working with CROs, not against them Why Augmentiv makes contract labs more productive instead of trying to replace them.

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