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laboratory

[lab-ruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, lab-er-uh-, luh-bor-uh-tuh-ree, -uh-tree] / ˈlæb rəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, ˈlæb ər ə-, ləˈbɒr ə tə ri, -ə tri /
NOUN
testing room
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When scientists inhibited ERRγ in muscle cells grown in the laboratory, the transition between fiber types stopped entirely.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Football’s mad scientist wanted just one thing: to be left alone in his laboratory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Of those, some 380,000 were considered promising enough to make in a laboratory.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Unlike the controlled conditions of a laboratory, cosmic radiation is highly unpredictable.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Recordings from the laboratory when Journey and I were still in testing.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

The equivalent experimental work would have taken hundreds of millions of years in laboratories.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Her sister, a high school student, standing nearby, described deteriorating learning conditions, with 40 pupils per class and a lack of facilities such as laboratories, at her school.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Those 17 proteins were among 211 candidate designs generated by Claude that were sent to real-world research laboratories for physical testing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Rather than investigating genetic code evolution, the researchers were trying to improve the tools available for studying organisms that are difficult to grow and analyze in laboratories.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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