Scientists argue research scaling is 80% one-pot protocols, not lab automation
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-10-27
Zach Rosenthal argues the conversation on scientific bottlenecks overfocuses on automation while new measurement technologies deserve attention: reinvent an assay to fit a few tubes instead of automating a facility. Richard Fuisz adds that 80% of scaling scientific research means squeezing more data from the same labor steps via one-pot protocols — a story with no natural constituency profiting from telling it.
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