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When students take "Cut and Paste" too literally

17 December 2025
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Why even today students need to experience work in a lab, and not in a virtual reality environment

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The art and science of freezing bacteria

10 December 2025
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Bacterial cryo-storage in some detail

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Microbiology practical 2025

3 December 2025
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First year students in the microbiology lab

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On narrow minds and broad science

26 November 2025
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In defense of model organisms such as E. coli

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Oh dear, Liebherr, what have you done?

19 November 2025
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Liebherr Mediline: a pattern of failure

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Xencelabs Quick Keys

12 November 2025
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An excellent workspace companion.

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"In It Goes!"

5 November 2025
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Ethanol precipitation of a 10 L ligation reaction

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Freezer physics: when flexibility fights stability

29 October 2025
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More freezer intricacies

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A robust and compact mini cycler

22 October 2025
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Benchmark TC-32 Mini thermal cycler: A compact solution for the lab

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New ways to navigate the literature landscape

15 October 2025
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A way to visualise connections between papers

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Cells don't care about your pomodoro timer

8 October 2025
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All those time management gurus should spend time in a research lab with active experiments

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The Scite.ai browser plugin: a free tool for citation context

1 October 2025
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Some useful additional publication details

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Why, Fisher, why?

25 September 2025
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An ode to the discontinued Gene Frames

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Dispensing with the Brand Transferpette

17 September 2025
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A tale of P1vir transductions and battery woes

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Dance of Destruction: A PAT testing adventure

9 September 2025
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In the grand theater of bureaucratic safety, the show must always go on.

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Paper Wizard - between mediocracy and gold

3 September 2025
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A tale of two papers and one overzealous AI

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Loss of a perfect pipetting aid

27 August 2025
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Liquid handling: less is more!

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Another Liebherr freezer bites the dust

12 August 2025
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The "quality" of the Mediline

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Glycerol – the Halloween edition

1 August 2025
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When glycerol looks like a radioactive sunset

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ChatGPT having a stroke

31 July 2025
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When AI hallucinates: a cautionary tale

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The reality of freezer performance during power outages: empirical equipment data

30 July 2025
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How much does the freezer temperature rise during a 2-hour power cut?

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FileMaker Pro: A Masterclass in Customer Service

29 July 2025
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Paying Twice

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pE-4000 by CoolLED

14 March 2020
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Switching from metal halide to LED was a very good move for us.

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Hamamatsu ORCA-Flash4.0

11 March 2020
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A significant improvement for the imaging quality of our fluorescence microscopy applications.

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