LabLit in the news
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"It is indisputably a novel, but it is unapologetically educational"
- LabLit's editor reviews a new math lit book in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v460/n7254/full/460461b.html -
"[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
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v6/n7/full/nmeth0709-471.html -
"[One of] 20 great websites that every scientist, engineering, or geek-at-heart ought to know about"
Baltimore Science News Examiner on LabLit.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-6378-Baltimore-Science-News-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Top-20-websites-every-scientist-or-engineer-ought-to-know -
"This scientific novel can't be put down"
Science magazine recommends Experimental Heart
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5932/1267 -
"An excellent addition to the newly-identified genre known as LabLit"
Experimental Heart reviewed in Living the Scientific Life
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/04/experimental_heart.php -
"Rohn has taken a world that is mysterious and often ignored and placed it front and center...a truly fresh voice"
Experimental Heart reviewed in The Virginia Quarterly Review
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"[A]ll the well-loved aspects of a research laboratory"
Experimental Heart reviewed in The Biochemist
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"[C]heck out [LabLit.com] for more reasons to welcome science to literature"
Cell
http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(08)01571-7 -
"[W]here literary scientists...can find like-minded people"
Chemistry World on LabLit.com
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2008/December/Editorial.asp -
"Conspiracy at the bench"
LabLit's editor's debut novel reviewed in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7222/full/456575b.html -
"Imprisoned by intelligence"
LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7221/full/456446a.html -
"Fictional quantum conspiracy"
LabLit's editor reviews a new novel in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/454582a.html -
What is LabLit.com?
Learn more on the Guardian's 'Science Weekly' podcast
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/03/science_weekly_for_march_17_sc.html -
"From bench to book"
LabLit's editor reviews 3 novels in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/451128a.html -
Behind the scenes
Q&A of LabLit's editor in Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7175/full/7175ixb.html -
"Image and imagination: overhauling the reputation of scientists"
LabLit's editor in Laboratory News
http://www.labnews.co.uk/laboratory_article.php/2603/5/image-and-imagination:-overhauling-the-reputation-of-scientists -
"LabLit is all about encouraging the use of realistic depictions of science and scientists in realistic fiction"
Scott Keir, Nature Network London
http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/scottkeir/2007/09/29/lab-lit-caf-sci -
Why aren't white coats sexy?
LabLit's editor writes in The Biochemist
http://www.biochemist.org/bio/02902/0028/029020028.pdf -
"It's a wonderful venture, and a topic of the most resonant importance"
novelist Richard Powers on LabLit.com
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/mfa/content/faculty/rpowers.shtml -
"FUN: Still life, with test tube"
Science magazine recommends LabLit
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/311/5766/1353e -
Experimental fiction
LabLit's editor talks fiction in Nature
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"A light touch and some panache"
LabLit reviewed by The Biochemist
http://www.biochemist.org/bio/02806/0048/028060048.pdf