I now operate a stripped-down, spare, and much more useful lab book.
While other film formats will offer more surface area (and, consequently, more resolution, and less grain at a given enlargement), many minilabs will not be able to develop and/or scan it, which means you'll have to go to a much more expensive lab to get it developed.
The second major difference is that, generally speaking, U.S. labs are much more competitive than labs elsewhere in the world.
And they knew that embryos, both animal and human, grew much more slowly in the lab than they did in the body.
For two undergraduates, helping build a synthetic yeast genome proved much more than just another lab course.
This is in spite of the fact that a) taxa diversity appeared much more limited in the lab environment and b) field dumps exhibited considerable variation between samples (Figure 2 and 4D).
Molecular biomarkers can be much more sensitive than traditional lab tests.
And much more recently, Jeffrey Gordon's lab, where they are very interested in the microbiome, looked at changes in microbial genes across all microbes in the human gut and how they change at different ages [ 3].
The high-profile nature of the case contributed to the public's growing awareness of the role of DNA in establishing biological ties, and these days, paternity tests are much more commonplace, with private labs offering home testing kits for 10,000 rupees ($160) or less, with no need for a judge's permission.
Reviews of accident reports, Kaufman tells Science Careers, suggest that accidents are much more common in academic labs than in industry.
