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Author: Jenny Rohn

Jennifer Rohn is a cell biologist at University College London and the founder and Editor of LabLit.com. She's the author of three lab lit novels, Experimental Heart, The Honest Look, and her latest, Cat Zero. She blogs about the scientific life at Mind The Gap, and she frequently appears in print, broadcast and in person as a science/lit/art pundit.
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Twenty years of LabLit.com

Jenny Rohn | 31 March 2025

It’s been twenty years since our very first article was put live on 7th March 2005.

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Here’s to the Labliterati

Jenny Rohn | 31 March 2025

Soon after LabLit launched, I was approached and asked whether I’d like to preside over a new monthly book group

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Murder, marriage woes and malaria: 30 new additions to the Lab Lit List

Jenny Rohn | 31 March 2025

We are pleased to present the latest update of the Lab Lit List, our iconic database of fiction about scientists.

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Escape velocity: 96 new additions to the Lab Lit List!

Jenny Rohn | 25 February 2024

We are pleased to present the most recent update to our list of lab lit fiction. It’s a particularly big one this time: although…

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Racy thrillers, rom-coms and period romps: 83 new additions to the LabLit List

Jenny Rohn | 2 October 2022

It’s official – it really does seem as if lab lit, the genre, is finally going mainstream.

Fifteen years of Lablit.com

Jenny Rohn | 15 March 2020

In March 2005, our lights first came on: a space for exploring the culture of science and scientists in the real world and as portrayed in fiction.

Voices of the next generation

Jenny Rohn | 2 September 2019

Last year, I received an email from Marieclaire Apuli, a Language Arts teacher at Emerson Middle School, serving students from Park Ridge and Niles,…

Coming soon

Fire

Our long-running series, ‘A Momentary Lapse of Reason’, concludes!

In the news...

"“I never say never with viruses. Never"

LabLit's founder Jenny Rohn discusses the classic lab lit movie, Outbreak, in The Alarmist podcast

"If you want to be a writer... you need to write a lot and read a lot"

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on the Lonely Pipette podcast

"LabLit.com founder and editor, Jenny Rohn, is prone to getting excited over 'hard-core lab scenes'"

LabLit.com picks another great crop of beach reads for NPR

"These summer reads have scientists at their heart"

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

"It's a great venue for aspiring authors to publish their fiction about scientists"

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on 3M Champions of Science podcast

Novels about scientists highlight passion and (sometimes) failure

Interview of LabLit.com's editor on NPR

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