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Voices of the next generation
Our Young Author series launches
Jennifer Rohn 2 September 2019
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Pipettes, polar exhibitions, primates and pure escapism
49 new additions to the Lab Lit List
Jennifer Rohn 9 December 2018
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The League of Imaginary Cats
A new series inspired by real science
Jennifer Rohn 1 May 2017
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A growing trend for science in fiction?
29 new additions to the Lab Lit List!
Jennifer Rohn 5 March 2017
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Something old, something new...and yet more Darwin
36 new additions to the Lab Lit List!
Jennifer Rohn 21 May 2016
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Another welcome booster shot
19 new additions to the Lab Lit List!
Jennifer Rohn 6 March 2015
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Ten years of LabLit.com
A memorable anniversary of an ambitious project
Jennifer Rohn 6 March 2015
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Are scientists in novels trending?
43 new additions to the Lab Lit List!
Jennifer Rohn 16 June 2014
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Post NYT landslide
29 new additions to the Lab Lit List!
Jennifer Rohn 7 April 2013
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Sex and drugs and a pack of wolves
Seven new additions to the LabLit List
Jennifer Rohn 21 August 2012
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Cures, careers, crushes and crimes
Ten new additions to the LabLit list
Jennifer Rohn 31 July 2011
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Science in fiction booster
25 additions to the Lab Lit List
Jennifer Rohn 2 May 2010
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Scientists in novels: a growing trend?
Seventeen new additions to the Lab Lit List
Jennifer Rohn 8 September 2009
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LabLit - worth a listen
Our podcast series is launched
Jennifer Rohn 19 April 2009
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Science as democracy
How much can, and should, non-scientists shape the research agenda?
Jennifer Rohn 4 May 2008
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A day in the life: scientists meet writers
Will this latest forum inspire more lab lit fiction?
Jennifer Rohn 21 October 2007
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MyLab
Nature Network London launches
Jennifer Rohn 25 March 2007
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Dumbed down
On the downplaying of science in the newspapers
Jennifer Rohn 14 May 2006
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The Waterstone’s Challenge, Part Two
Can consumers be enticed to buy ‘lab lit’ fiction? All is revealed!
Jennifer Rohn 5 February 2006
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The White Scourge
Are iPods changing lab culture?
Jennifer Rohn 22 October 2005
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Prove it
A rant on the evolution of emotions reveals core misconceptions
Jennifer Rohn 25 September 2005
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The Waterstone's Challenge
LabLit asked a major bookseller to consider profiling "Lab Lit" novels as an experiment in selling a new "genre" – and they were up for it!
Jennifer Rohn 24 April 2005
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Welcome to LabLit.com
Our lights are now on!
Jennifer Rohn 7 March 2005

Coming soon...
- The special ones
  
  Our Young Authors series continues with short fiction from Katrina and Sara
- The plot thickens in 'The ghost of cells past, Part 2'
  
  Our exciting new 4-part story from Deborah Flusberg continues!
- The retraction
  
  The next exciting episode of our serial 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason'!
Past highlights
- Needs must: The great pipette tip caper
  
  New humorous fiction from Julia RIchards
- After the Delhi rapes, a female scientist from India speaks out
  
  Professional women in India have to work in fear - when will it change?
- 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

In the news
- "LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over 'hard-core lab scenes.' "
  
  LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR
- "These summer reads have scientists at their heart"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- "It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast
- Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure
  
  Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR
- Lab lit - a lesser-known literary genre that tries to portray scientists realistically, beyond the classic lab coat stereotypes
  
  Science in fiction featured in Nature Physics
- Scientists in space - and beyond
  
  Jenny talks lab lit fiction with Mariella Frostrup on Open Book, BBC Radio 4
- The untapped niche is rich in opportunities for originality
  
  Piece about lab lit fiction in Nature
- Lab Lit Revealed: LabLit.com's editor interviewed by Robert Crease
  
  Piece in Physics World
- "Lab lit? What’s that? Not to be confused with science fiction, lab lit refers to novels with scientists as central characters"
  
  NPR discusses LabLit.com and the genre - or lack thereof
- "[R]research developments have been featuring in novels that depict the world as we know it now."
  
  Piece on LabLit in Oxford Today
- "[A] genre of serious fiction with a snappy new name: lab lit...the webzine LabLit.com...has “Lab Lit Lists” for dozens of novels, films, plays and TV shows
  
  The New York Times likes LabLit.com
- 'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like
  
  The New Scientist talks to Jenny
- Light reading
  
  LabLit helps judge Diamond's science short story competition
- Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"
  
  51stories.com recommends Lablit.com
- "A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"
  
  BioTechniques Webwatch recommends us
- "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 Byers 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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