NEW YORK—As the consolidation trend in the wholesale lab business winds down, some new independents have emerged to serve a changing market prompting us to ask ‘Why is now a good time to start a lab?’ Vision Monday interviewed executives from three different start-up labs. Interestingly, all of them are veteran lab owners and operators. Here’s what we learned about their businesses as we kick off The Modern Lab, a new quarterly series that explores trends impacting wholesale labs.