Uploaded March 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Today on LabChat, we're traveling five years down the road to see what labs will look like in 2019. To get an accurate description of what the lab of the future is expected to entail, Laboratory Equipment recently surveyed its readership and analyzed the results.
As in past years, more advanced instrumentation is the strongest expected improvement in the research lab, as chosen by nearly half of the survey respondents. The upgrade of existing labs and the implementation of new technologies are a close second and third, respectively garnering 47 and 44% of the votes.
Today on LabChat, we're traveling five years down the road to see what labs will look like in 2019. To get an accurate description of what the lab of the future is expected to entail, Laboratory Equipment recently surveyed its readership and analyzed the results.
As in past years, more advanced instrumentation is the strongest expected improvement in the research lab, as chosen by nearly half of the survey respondents. The upgrade of existing labs and the implementation of new technologies are a close second and third, respectively garnering 47 and 44% of the votes.
