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  • Gene therapy

    Short fiction from Peter Tsvetkov and Sharon Dekel

  • The science of Caprica and other tales

    An interview with Malcolm MacIver

  • The mad quest for Pluto

    We review The Unfixed Stars by Michael Byers

  • March of the dirt people

    Tom Mahony on how fieldwork brings out the best and worst

  • Scientists 3, Reporters 1

    Short fiction from Nicholas Russell

• Past highlights

  • Live long and prosper: a brief encounter with Aubrey de Grey

    Akshat Rathi meets the man who wants to abolish aging

  • A lab wager goes horribly wrong: The 50% Sleeper by Tal Yarkoni

    Humorous fiction from the LabLit short story series

  • The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica

    Scientist Seelye Martin reports live from an airborne mission

  • Stardom

    Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The day after today

    Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson

  • Dr. Flirt

    Can a PhD attract women?

  • Bad cop

    Ben Goldacre defrocks the pseudoscientists

  • Unkind literature

    Lewis Wolpert ponders fictional science bad guys

  • The Glider

    Martin Raff recalls a childhood bust-up

  • Marketing lab lit fiction

    An experiment with Waterstone's

  • Sex in the lab

    What's Kat Arney wearing under her white coat?

• Latest blogs

  • PhD Life

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  • Breathing space

    Jenny  24 Aug 2010
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  • Day 5 (Alex’s Version – Time to say goodbye!)

    Alex  14 Aug 2010
    (8 comments)

• Forums chatter

  • The difference between fact and fiction

    Editor in Science in novels, short stories and plays

  • Are there unique psychological traits to a scientist?

    Editor in The scientific profession

  • Politicians and the new media

    Editor in Science and Politics

• In the news

  • "Another example of 'lab lit' is Experimental Heart...which I’ll put on my 'to read' list"

    - The Boston Globe gets into science novels

  • "[Scientists] are usually cast as troublemakers and hardly ever get to be true Hollywood heroes"

    Jenny dissects the science behind the movie 'Splice' for BBC News

  • "Science is a great topic for a novel"

    Interview of LabLit's editor in Lab Times

  • A lab lit renaissance?

    Jenny's essay in Nature about why science in fiction seems on the rise

  • "The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"

    Author Michael Byer recommends our collection of science novels

  • "Science is only one side of the story"

    Jenny from LabLit interviews Billy Bragg for Nature news

  • "[Lab lit novels] are not just entertaining tales of biologists at work; they also make the reader think about the unique issues"

    Nature Methods recommends LabLit.com

  • "[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"

    Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com

  • "[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"

    Cell

  • "[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"

    Chemistry World on LabLit.com

  • What is LabLit.com?

    Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast

  • "It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"

    novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com

  • "FUN: Still life, with test tube"

    Science magazine recommends LabLit

  • "A light touch and some panache"

    LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist

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