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Making Your Experiments Easier to Digest

One of the great things about being a science journalist is being among the first to hear about technologies that are cool, useful, and/or downright weird. Today, for example, I learned that the world’s leading manufacturer of artificial laboratory stomachs … Continue reading

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Sewing a Lab Chip

Lab-on-a-chip devices are a hot topic these days, and more and more researchers are finding cheap ways to make these tiny devices (see my earlier posts on these cool tools for background). Now, some Australian scientists have taken the process … Continue reading

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Cell Is for Cellulose

Cultured cells are a mainstay of modern biomedical research, but they’re very limiting. Growing the cells in a flat monolayer on a petri dish is the easiest way to control and study them, but it doesn’t represent their normal in … Continue reading

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