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Scientists freed lab mice into the wild, and the result was shocking

When scientists opened the doors of a research facility and let carefully bred lab mice loose into a fenced field, they ...
People

The FDA's Lab Animals Can Now Be Adopted Out As Pets Instead of Euthanized

The National Institutes of Health enacted a similar policy for their lab animals in Feb. 2019 Healthy dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and other animals who have been used in lab research by the Food ...
Education Week

Simulated vs. Hands-On Lab Experiments

A student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...
The Atlantic

A Simple Lab Ingredient Derailed Science Experiments

Last year, in July, Reine Protacio’s experiments suddenly stopped working. Every scientist encounters baffling results from time to time; you chalk it up to error, repeat the experiment, and hope for ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Virtual Laboratory Simulates Physics Experiments

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...
Forbes

In The Lab Of The Future, Robots Run Experiments While Scientists Sleep

Ben Miles may be one of the last scientists to handle a pipette. While completing a chemical biology Ph.D. in London two years ago, he read about a California-based company called Transcriptic that ...
Michigan Technological University

Be Brief: Lab

If the Unit Operations Lab can navigate a pandemic, then we all can. In our Be Brief format, we explore the challenges and adaptations of lab courses. Teaching labs is what we do. More than 95% of ...