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New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists — 201 episodes

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Thrive in Science: Leadership Lessons from Olga Seltser

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AVA™ Emulation System by Emulate | SLAS 2026 New Product Award Winner

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The Thinking Microscope By Steven Finkbeiner | SLAS 2026 Innovation Award Winner

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Introducing Thrive in Science: Women’s Leadership Edition

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How Collaborations Drive Lab Innovation | SLAS Europe 2026 NexusXp Flash Talk Preview (Sponsored by Agilent Technologies)

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Sustainability Trends in Sample Management (Sponsored by PulpFixin)

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eviDense UV Photometer by Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and HSE•AG | SLAS 2026 New Product Award Winner

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XDemics | 2026 SLAS Ignite Award Winner

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Building a Greener Lab: Sustainability Trends in Life Science (Sponsored by My Green Lab)

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SLAS2026 NexusXp Integration Showcases Preview

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Removing Unnecessary Plastics in Science (Sponsored by PulpFixin)

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SLAS2026 Short Course Previews

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The MO:BOT from mo:re | SLAS Europe 2025 New Product Award Winner with Lukas Gaats, MBA, MSc

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2025 SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Recipient | Vasu Rao, MS, PhD Candidate

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Student Perspectives on Research, Networking and Global Impact at Scientific Conferences

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Beyond the Hype | Practical AI Solutions from Expert Intelligence (Sponsored by Waters)

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Innovation AveNEW Spotlight | React4Life’s Organ-on-a-Chip System (Sponsored by Waters)

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Special Episode | Meet Editor-in-Chief Bob Campbell of SLAS Discovery (Sponsored by Waters)

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Ensuring Sample Integrity | Automation Challenges in Diagnostics with David Jennions, Ph.D. (Sponsored by United Robotics Group)

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Donkey Work No More | Streamlining Lab Automation with Lab Donkey (Sponsored by United Robotics Group)

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Democratizing Laboratory Robotics with Jon Brennan-Badal of Opentrons (Sponsored by United Robotics Group)

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SLAS Applied Liquid Handling Bootcamp | Everything You Need to Know (Sponsored by United Robotics Group)

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SLAS2025 Short Courses Preview

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Revolutionizing Lab Productivity: How AI and Unified Data Platforms Drive Scientific Innovation (Sponsored by Sapio Sciences)

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SLAS Europe 2024 | Interviews with Tony B. Travel Award Winners

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Accessibility in the Lab | Best Practices in Allyship with Colin Cox, Ph.D.

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Current Challenges of 3D Cell Models (Sponsored by Inventia Life Science)

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The Pixel System from CytoTronics | New Product Award Winner with Shalaka Chitale

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Exploring AI Adoption in Early Drug Discovery with Raminderpal Singh (Sponsored by Roche)

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SLAS2024 | Interviews with Winners of the Student Poster Awards, Tony B. Award and SLAS-NOBCChE Scholarship (Sponsored by Roche)

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Peers Review | What's the Difference Between a Spheroid and an Organoid? (Sponsored by Roche)

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Accessibility in the Lab | Navigating Diversity in Drug Discovery with Brandon Miller (Sponsored by Roche)

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Bridging the Gap in Data Standardization with Glenwood Barbee (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Accessibility in the Lab | Embracing Identity and Authenticity with Ramisa Fariha (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Career Trajectories | The Science of Start-Ups with Stefan Lukianov, M.S. (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Career Trajectories | The Recipe for Continuous Career Growth with Rishi Mahajan, M.S. (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Career Trajectories | Adapting to Automation Kalpesh Gupta, M.S. (Sponsored by Benchling)

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SLAS2024 Keynote Speakers | A Conversation with Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke of This Podcast Will Kill You (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Career Trajectories | Networking as a Second Language with Yulia Gerhardt (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Lab of the Future | How the Concept Has Evolved with Zahid Tharia (Sponsored by Benchling)

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Efficiency at Scale: Innovations in Sample Management (Sponsored by Scigilian)

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Lab of the Future | The Importance of Collaborations with Ryan Bernhardt

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Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Language Acquisition with AI | Tracy Centanni, M.S., Ph.D.

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Lab of the Future | Data Management with Oliver Leven, Ph.D. and Sascha Fischer, M.Sc.

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Tomolite Bioprinter from Readily3D | New Product Award Winner with Paul Delrot and Leoni Stienne

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Accessibility in the Lab | Design Lab Spaces for DEI with Marilee Lloyd, AIA

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Lab of the Future | How Open-Source Accelerates Research with Jon Brennan-Badal

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The EggSorter from Bionomous | New Product Award and Ignite Award Winner with Frank Bonnet

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Absorbance 96 Automate: The World's First On-Deck Plate Reader from Byonoy | New Product Award Winner with Colten Wimmer

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Revolutionizing Healthcare with Bioprinting | with Didarul Bhuiyan, Ph.D.

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Unlocking the Power of Hydrogel Beads in BLINK X PCR Diagnostics | New Product Award Winner with Hartmut Bocker, Ph.D.

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SLAS Europe 2023 | Interviews with Tony B. Award and Student Poster Award Winners

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Lab of the Future | Importance of End-to-End Workflows with Robert Williams, Ph.D. (Sponsored by Molecular Devices)

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Lab of the Future | Extended Reality Solutions with Miquel Vidal and Adam Prosho (Sponsored by Molecular Devices)

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The Ins and Outs of Single Cell Gene Editing (Sponsored by Molecular Devices)

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Lab of the Future | The Integration of AI/ML in Life Sciences Labs with Trevor Vieweg, M.S. (Sponsored by Molecular Devices)

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Samuel Berryman, Ph.D. Candidate | 2023 SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Recipient

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Measuring Biomolecules with Quantum Electrochemical Spectroscopy

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SLAS2023 Student Poster Award Winners

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Broad Spectrum Antivirals | XIV SDDN 2022 Poster Award Winner Marisa Parra

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Ontology and Knowledge Graphs in Life Sciences Research | with Stephen Kahmann, M.S., and Cameron Gibbs, Ph.D.

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Introducing the New SLAS Scientific Director Lesley Mathews, Ph.D.

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Lab of the Future | Where We Should be Heading with Olga Seltser, M.E.

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Lab of the Future | Mass Spectrometry Methods in High-Throughput Screening with Maaike Bras

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Accessibility in Lab | Success Stories in Accessibility with Yujia Ding, M.S., Ed.D.

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Accessibility in Lab | Conversations Around Accessibility with Sara Siwiecki

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Accessibility in Lab | Accessibility in the Workforce with Logan Gin, Ph.D.

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Accessibility in Lab | Accessibility in Education with Sara Rivera, Ph.D. and Madelyn Cook

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A Lesson in the Use of Venom in Drug Discovery with Steve Trim

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A Lesson in High-Content Image Analysis with Beth Cimini, Ph.D.

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From Stargazing to World Record Breaking | Career Trajectories with Rupert Dodkins, Ph.D.

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MagicPrep™ NGS System from Tecan | Innovative New Technologies with Ashesh Saraiya, Ph.D. (Sponsored by TheWell Bioscience)

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Technologies Based on Lanthanides Emissions to Perform Ultrasensitive Assays | Innovative New Technologies with Roger Bosse, Ph.D. (Sponsored by TheWell Bioscience)

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Paying it Forward | Career Mentorship with Christina Minnick (Sponsored by TheWell Bioscience)

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What is the Lab of the Future? | A New Series Exploring the Lab of the Future (Sponsored by TheWell Bioscience)

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Discovering Clues for Success | Career Trajectories with Alison Hirukawa, Ph.D.

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Lab of the Future | A New Short Course On Demand from SLAS

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A Behind the Scenes Look at SLAS Conferences and Events with Amy Wilkinson, CMP, DES

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Pig-to-Human Heart Transplant | Fighting Infectious Diseases with Sivan Bercovici, Ph.D.

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Accelerating Human Discovery | A Lesson in Small Molecule Biomarkers with Mo Jain, M.D., Ph.D.

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Automating Chemistry with Artificial Intelligence | with Del Ray Jackson, Ph.D., and Rick Sidler, Ph.D. (Sponsored by Unchained Labs)

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Organ-on-Chip Technology | Innovative New Technology with Daniel Levner, Ph.D.

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Compound Management Made Easy with Jean Marois and Chatura Jayakody (Sponsored by Scigilian)

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3D Bioprinting | Accelerating Drug Discovery with Andrew Ridley, Ph.D.

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Accidental Discoveries - Digital Magnetic Cell Sorting Technology with Coleman Murray, Ph.D.

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"What Next?" Disease - Career Trajectories with Mahrukh Banday, Ph.D.

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An Exploration in Cell Imaging and Photonic Innovation with Roland Terborg, Ph.D.

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The State of What Is - A Lesson in Mass Spectrometry with Michelle Dubuke, Ph.D.

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The Zeiss Lattice Lightsheet 7 - Innovative New Technologies with Kirstin Elgass, Ph.D.

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It's in the Air - Fellowship Follow-Up with Ulri Lee, Ph.D.

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Scaling Up, Up and Away - Fellowship Follow-Up with David McIntyre

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Adapting in Discovery - Fellowship Follow-Up with Carine Nemr, Ph.D.

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Into the Eyes

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The Value of Taking A Left Turn | Career Trajectories with David Jennions, Ph.D.

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From Dreams of Fashion to Science | Career Trajectories with Mei Wu, Ph.D.

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Do Good for the World | Career Trajectories with Aoi Senju

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Accelerating Materials Innovation

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Having an Eye Inside Cells

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Blue Ocean Strategy

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Enabler of Personalized Medicine

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More Complex Cultures

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Winners Abound

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Solving Problems for the World's Good

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Sharing Data in an Open Forum

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Tiny Worms- Experiments Fast

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Genes, Drugs, Brains, and Mind

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A New Way of Screening

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The Therapeutic Revolution

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I Can See It Now!

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Saving the World With a Lab in a Box

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Start Early

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The Things We Don't Know

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Useful for Mankind

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Start By Listening

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Embrace the Power of Screening

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A Partnership in Science

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Evolution Rather Than Revolution

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AI Automation Explosion

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Goals of Miniaturization

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Sample Management: A Spotlight on Criticality

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3D Cell Culture: The Future is Bright and Promising

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This Side Up

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A Critical Platform

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Bio Convergence Revolution

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Lab Automation, High-throughput Screening, Microfluidics, Single Cell Analysis... Oh My!

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Scaling up the Universal Design

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Leading Across Difference

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Brain In A Dish

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The Next Generation

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FRET and BRET-based Thermostability Assays

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Curiosity Built In Me

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At the Touch of Your Screen

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The Future of Precision Medicine

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Espresso Machine for DNA

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Like Recipes in a Kitchen

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The Importance of Science and Health

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Mid-Brain Organoids

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From Art Form to Practice

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Turning the Scientific Method into an Art Form

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Better Tools to Improve Science

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Fascinated by life

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Think Science in Management

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Face to Face Direction

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Thinking Like a Computer

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Helping Scientists Do More

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More About Our World

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Something Tangible

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Being a (Science) Cheerleader

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A Natural Aptitude

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Between a Rock and a 3D Place

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Global Connections

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Being the Lever

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Going Vertical

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The Whole Immune Shebang

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Notes From the Middle of the Night

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Keep the Bad Bugs Out

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You Just Have to Start

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Pharma in the Desert

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Fleets of Robots

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Listen to Scientists

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Lots of Wheels and Motors

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A Tinkerer's Approach

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A New Job Title Every Day

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CRISPR is Eating the World

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Stronger for the Future

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Jurassic Park Culture and Dirty Sinks

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Make Stuff Happen

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A Real-time Protein Traffic Report

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No Limitation in Your Imagination!

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Strategic Pivot

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Lab Robotics Jenga

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Be Bold. Take Chances.

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Find Answers Faster

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Right Place, Right Time

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Bon Anniversaire SLAS!

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Does Your Science fit in a Briefcase?

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From COVID to CANVASS with NIH's Matt Hall, Biology Group Lead, NCATS

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Delivering Tailored Therapies to Cancer Patients with Gregory Vladimer

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Ulri Lee- SLAS Graduate Education Fellow

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Thi Mui Pham- 2020 SLAS Visiting Graduate Researcher

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SLAS Turns 10! Looking Back with Richard Eglen

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SLAS2020 Innovation Award Winner: Joseph de Rutte

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Iscaffpharma Highlights Technology & Innovation AveNEW Opportunity

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SLAS2020 New Product Award Winner- V&P Scientific, Inc.

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SLAS2020 New Product Award Winner- Bioelectronica

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Synthace's Experience with Innovation AveNEW

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SLAS2020 Student Poster Competition Winners

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Hanging with the Alpha Knights Robotics Team from San Marcos High School

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Chatting with SLAS2020 Chairs

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Extracting Meaning From Big Data in Volume Electron Microscopy with Martin Jones

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Chatting with Pierre Baillargeon on Optimizing Processes Using In-House Engineering to Innovate Automation and Sample Management

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Sample Management as a Career, Not a Job

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Juan Caicedo's "Data Bowl"

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Oren Kraus, Co-founder Phenomic AI

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Spotlight on Christian Soitu, Oxford University, 2019 Innovation Award Recipient

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2019 New Product Award Winner: Andrew Alliance

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2019 New Product Award Winner: NanoView

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2019 New Product Award Winner: Stilla Technologies

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2019 Ignite Award Winner: SEED Biosciences

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2019 Student Poster Award Winners

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Welcome to New Matter: Inside the Minds of SLAS Scientists