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These 99 'lab hacks' will make your scientific work easier

Nature asked contributors, editors and working researchers to share their best advice for scientists.
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  1. Jack Leeming
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A stylised illustration showing a woman with her hair tied back with a glove surrounded by various lab hacks. There is a beaker being supported by lego, there are various iconic components like folders, shortcut keys, pens labelling coffee cups, bottles and boards, bulldog clips holding pipettes and lines of code floating around.

Illustrations: Bratislav Milenkovic

Over the past 12 months, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ working lives easier.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02719-z

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