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Featured fact

Upright

Podcast: Films, frolics and flash fiction

Scientists were sometimes portrayed as good guys, sometimes as bad – the good/bad divide was difficult to interpret
Featured fiction

Strainspotting

Fiction: by Calum MacKichan

Choose feeding bread to ducks without wondering how such absurd creatures evolved in the first place

Current contents

NEW! Breath

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: Alan Garth
The world of my experiment

Lab Snaps: the winner

Competition: LabLit.com
Scientists are indeed sexy beasts. Not only do our lab coats make us look dapper and charming, those same coats look even better strewn unceremoniously over a standing lamp while we make passionate love to you

Adam Ruben
Stories of discovery

Litmus and Lemistry

Review: Richard P. Grant
Panic stations

The Fear Index by Robert Harris

Review: Jennifer Rohn
Road's end

From the LabLit short shory series

Fiction: Nik Papageorgiou
Looking for a leading lady?

Women scientists capture the imagination

Essay: J. L. Greger
You do what?

An entomologist’s guide to dating

Essay: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt
The witching hour

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: Polly Ashford

Net gain

On crowd-sourcing scientific research funding

Essay: Bill Hanage
Forward momentum

The Sensorium of God by Stuart Clark

Review: Pippa Goldschmidt
SMOUND

From the LabLit science verse series

Poetry: Sara Sutter
Alphabet soup

The acronyms clogging up corporate science

Lab Rats: Stella Hill
Unnatural diets

Composing fiction in synthetic media

Humor: Rachel Rodman
The Journal Tree

From the LabLit short story series

Fiction: Julia Richards
[A]lthough scientists are uniquely qualified to understand what will be possible, they are not always best able to judge the dangers

- Nature
Heliocentric

Burns, baby booms & Beyonce’s bum

Podcast: LabLit.com
1+1

by Daen de Leon

Fiction: Daen de Leon
Sharps and flats

The Score

Review: Richard Wintle

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Coming soon...
- Sex in the biotech lab
  
  'Breathing on Glass' reviewed
- Chemistry in science
  
  A review of Carl Djerassi's latest play
- Pi curious
  
  An unusual science roadshow takes London by storm
- Live and let die
  
  'When The Killing's Done' reviewed
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
- Say it with E. coli and Enterococcus
  
  Jenny 11 May 2012
  (2 comments)
- Now that’s what I call the hard sell
  
  Jenny 5 Mar 2012
  (2 comments)
- That empty hole in your life…
  
  Jenny 20 Jan 2012
  (2 comments)
In the news
- '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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Featured fact

Upright

Featured fiction

Strainspotting

Current contents

NEW! Breath

The world of my experiment

Stories of discovery

Panic stations

Road's end

Looking for a leading lady?

You do what?

The witching hour

Net gain

Forward momentum

SMOUND

Alphabet soup

Unnatural diets

The Journal Tree

Heliocentric

1+1

Sharps and flats

Site Navigation

Coming soon...

Sex in the biotech lab

Chemistry in science

Pi curious

Live and let die

Past highlights

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

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

The flying laboratory: stalking the shrinking ice of Antarctica

Stardom

The day after today

Dr. Flirt

Bad cop

Unkind literature

The Glider

Marketing lab lit fiction

Sex in the lab

Latest blogs

Say it with E. coli and Enterococcus

Now that’s what I call the hard sell

That empty hole in your life…

In the news

'Lab lit' is a chance to show what we're really like

Light reading

Dedicated to "writing about the science environment, stories that take place in the lab"

"A clever website...LabLit.com breaks new ground in its portrayal of science and scientists"

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

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

"Science is a great topic for a novel"

A lab lit renaissance?

"The loveliness of the Lab Lit List"

"Science is only one side of the story"

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

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

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

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

What is LabLit.com?

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

"FUN: Still life, with test tube"

"A light touch and some panache"