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lab

[lab] / læb /
NOUN
laboratory
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NOUN
testing ground
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And while nature almost exclusively produces the version it requires to function, chemical reactions in a lab usually create a 50/50 mix of both left- and right-handed molecules.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

It said exensive investigations had uncovered "no emergencies" and that the lab had complied with "proper control when working with pathogenic microorganisms".

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

"What was especially remarkable was that the cells we're generating in vivo actually look better than what we make in the lab," Eyquem said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The lab worker, named in Russian media as Darya Shipilova, had reportedly fallen ill a couple of days earlier.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He had come—deliberately—to a lab built to take things apart piece by piece.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

Manus is an agent tool that can carry out real-world tasks for users -- currently a hot sector in global tech, with AI labs racing to release personal assistants.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The two San Francisco-based AI labs are also key suppliers for Microsoft, since Copilot runs primarily on their models.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The backlash from the math world coincided with a global reckoning about technology that Silicon Valley labs are racing to build.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those attacks have raised security concerns around the globe and led leading AI labs to suggest a pause in model development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Times Square had been barricaded off and converted into a temporary CDC—Centers for Disease Control—compound, complete with portable labs.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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