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Life in the Lab: Chapter 8 release

Life in the Lab Book.

Editing chapter now added.

A Significant Message

Significance: a danger word.
When should you say a "significant difference"? Probably not as often as you were taught in school.

Life in the Lab – Chapter 7 release + sample content

Just a quick announcement to say that Chapter 7 of Life in the Lab has now been uploaded and is available to download here. The new chapter adds sections on each of the different elements of a primary data paper; title, abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion. This content started life as my…

Life in the Lab – Chpt 5 release

Life in the lab pre-print: chapter 5 release

Science phrases grammar quiz… is your grammar up to it?

How well did you learn your grammar? This quiz will put you to the test...

Figure prep

Want more cartoons? see #9 here or #8 here Tips for making figures available here as part of our “writing guides section”

Serial References

Write your materials and methods properly!! Here are 10 quick tips or our complete methods writing guide Want to see more Life in the Laminin Lab cartoons – here is #7 (and backward links from there)