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t is hoped that this service, which provides tools for scientists to submit safety data into a single database, could help prevent the repeat of potentially dangerous events. ‘Laboratory and personal safety during


R&D is paramount. Many commercial and open resources exist that detail hazardous properties of individual reagents. However, we oſten lack real-life guidance regarding the combining and reacting of such reagents. Tis is because critical safety incident details typically are stored in internal silos, are undiscoverable, and are not shared between scientists,’ said Steve Arlington, president of the Pistoia Alliance. Te CSL Service includes a collaborative


database containing an initial set of hazardous reaction incidents compiled by the Pistoia Alliance CSL Service project team, and a simple submission tool to collect further entries. Te service is open to the community at large, to grow the reaction incident dataset and to share the collected data. Safety incidents are relatively common


in laboratories, but many incidents, while reported internally, are not public knowledge, so similar incidents can happen again in


President of the Pistoia Alliance, Steve Arlington


another organisation. Te CSL service hopes to reduce this as the dataset can be downloaded and integrated into companies’ proprietary systems and configured to alert scientists if there is a potential known safety risk, before they carry out an experiment. ‘With the launch of the CSL Service, we are addressing this long-standing issue with


THERMO FISHER ACQUIRES CORE INFORMATICS


Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that it has acquired informatics software provider Core Informatics – a company that specialises in cloud-based software to support scientific data management. In a press release, Thermo


Fisher stated that Core’s offerings will significantly enhance Thermo Fisher’s existing informatics solutions and complement its cloud platform,


which supports the company’s genetic analysis, qPCR and proteomics systems. ‘The scientific community is


rapidly adopting cloud-based laboratory and scientific data management capabilities,’ said Thomas Loewald, senior vice president and chief commercial officer, Thermo Fisher Scientific. ‘Integrating the leading technologies of Core Informatics is part of our strategy to set


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the standard for digital science solutions, from life sciences discovery to applied markets and manufacturing.’ Core Informatics provides


laboratory information management systems (LIMS), electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) technologies and scientific data management solutions (SDMS). The business also offers an Application Marketplace to accelerate deployment across


a broad range of industries and scientific workflows. ‘We are thrilled to join the


Thermo Fisher Scientific team to help accelerate the future of the digital lab,’ said Josh Geballe, chief executive officer, Core Informatics. ‘We are excited to become part of the world leader in serving science and look forward to the additional benefits this will bring to our innovative clients and amazing team.’


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Pistoia Alliance launches the Chemical Safety Library Service


WE NOW ENCOURAGE THE LABORATORY COMMUNITY TO ADD THEIR OWN DATA TO THE CSL SERVICE – IT TAKES JUST A COUPLE OF MINUTES AND COULD PREVENT THE REPEAT OF DANGEROUS EVENTS


a simple, easy-to-use solution. We now encourage the laboratory community to get involved, and to add their own data to the CSL Service – it takes just a couple of minutes and could prevent the repeat of dangerous events,’ concluded Arlington. In February 2017 the BBC reported that a


highly explosive substance was created – by accident – at the University of Bristol, UK, during a routine procedure. Te Pistoia Alliance is a not-for-profit


organisation that was created to address the barriers and challenges that companies face during life sciences research and development.


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