{"id":9328,"date":"2014-06-11T21:11:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.acceleratingscience.com\/behindthebench\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2016-11-11T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:23:30","slug":"aibiotech-rus-ion-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thermofisher.com\/blog\/behindthebench\/aibiotech-rus-ion-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"We Told AIBioTech to \u201cRun Ion Chef Into the Ground\u201d. Here\u2019s How It Turned Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we set out to conduct\u00a0#LabChat sessions\u00a0with real researchers, we wanted to get candid feedback on just how things are going in the lab. 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