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.

A team of researchers and students at the University of California, Riverside has created a Lego-like system of blocks that enables users to custom build chemical and biological research instruments.

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 ...

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 ...

A new technique to spin starch fibers using Lego pieces could have future applications for lab-grown "clean" meat, according to a team of food scientists from Penn State and the University of Alabama.

Nuclear energy is complex and even scary for some people. Lego playsets, however, are about as nonthreatening as it comes. Enter Catherine Riddle, a radiochemist and member of the science outreach ...