A paper in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Lab on a Chip, explains how the team at MIT used what they refer to as “interlocking injection-molded blocks” — again, seriously, it’s bricks — to build a ...

BioTechniques Digital Editor, Tristan Free talks to Cassandra Quave of Emory University (GA, USA) about her research analyzing botanical natural products to determine their pharmacological potential.

As any good hacker (or scientist) knows, sometimes you find the tools you need in unexpected places. For one group of MIT scientists, that place is a box of Lego. Graduate student [Crystal Owens] was ...

Lego bricks have standardised parts and can be found across the world. Credit: Cardiff University, Author provided Sourcing human tissue samples for biological investigations isn't always easy. While ...

Administrators, teachers and parents have been planning a new lab space full of LEGOs at the Flory Academy of Sciences and Technology, and officials said it's still on track despite an alleged theft ...

Meat is a central (and delicious) part of the worldwide food industry, but it's loaded with ethical quandaries. Is it okay to kill animals for food? And how can we eat so much meat when it leaves such ...

On Wednesday, the Lego Group shared its results from the first half of 2024 and revealed that it set a record operating profit of 8.1 billion DKK, which is roughly $1.25 billion USD. In a market that ...