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Chapter Seventeen: The Virus

Richard P Grant | 20 July 2025

“She was pregnant. With your child. That’s why I killed her”

Underwear science

Alaina Hammond | 5 May 2025

“Do you ever worry we’re too attractive?”

The middle author

Isaiah J. King | 23 December 2024

But after weeks of writing, I began to notice something. I didn’t think it was intentional. Maybe Jack had just made a mistake

shadowy figure on a dark street

Chapter Sixteen: The Confession

Richard P Grant | 15 September 2024

He had tolerated the recent questioning much as he might listen to a graduate student from another lab give their first talk

artistic image of police blue lights

Chapter Fifteen: The Police

Richard P Grant | 14 July 2024

it was always trying, visiting Mary’s mother.  Most Saturdays, Slater would rise early and sit in his study with a pile of academic papers

For the love of science, Part 2

Deborah Flusberg | 5 May 2024

Henrietta opened the door to the tissue culture incubator. She had stopped by the lab this late in the evening mainly to check on her cells.

Chapter Fourteen: The Paper

Richard P Grant | 25 March 2024

The woman slammed the paper down.
“Who is this journalist? Why don’t we know about her?”

Tubes in a centrifuge

For the love of science, Part 1

Deborah Flusberg | 17 March 2024

The lab stretched in all directions like a beach at low tide, its habitat revealed by the passing wave of the daytime rush.

Stack of books, artistically blurred

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…

An image of a lab

Spoils

João Ramalho-Santos | 4 February 2024

Unless they happen to you, disasters are initially acknowledged as far-away abstractions. Yes, a terrible thing happened, but terrible things happen everywhere, every day….

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"“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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