In forensic laboratories, by contrast, few are held accountable for a bad practice or botched results.
Microbes are usually detected in laboratories by feeding nutrients to suspected samples so they grow and expend.
A national organization of scholars and educators voted on Friday to call upon Asian-American scientists to boycott federal laboratories by not applying for jobs with them.
I am not speaking of genetically engineered hybrids, the patentable plants created in laboratories by manipulating an organism's genes.
This, too, is a reason that inventors ought to work for big corporations: big corporations have legal departments to protect their employees against being kept away from their laboratories by frivolous lawsuits.
The police commissioner recalled his days as a federal drug agent two decades ago, when he tested a device that was supposed to detect heroin laboratories by picking up the scent of the chemicals they used, like acetone.
In a well-run laboratory, there's no room for myside bias; the results have to be reproducible in other laboratories, by researchers who have no motive to confirm them.
Illegal methamphetamine laboratories by the hundreds have moved into rural areas of Missouri and Illinois, turning commonly used farm chemicals into grave hazards and making quiet neighborhoods and towns dangerous places to live.
Meanwhile, high profile incidents in which live anthrax and potent strains of bird flu were sent out of US government laboratories by mistake have demonstrated that accidents can happen even at gold standard facilities.
A disaffected doctor with a newly minted Ph.D. in pharmacology, he had but one job offer, from the Gladstone Institutes, wedged into crowded laboratories by San Francisco General Hospital.
Innovating companies are adapting to the demise of large corporate basic research laboratories by using their own research instead.
