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In this unit we take a look at the research laboratory environment in English. Our goal is to help you identify and refer correctly to various types of rooms, pieces of equipment, and other devices typically found in a biomedical research lab. Lack of fluency in this area may often be a source of frustration for non-native researchers, who need to point embarrassingly at or undertake convoluted descriptions of facilities that they cannot find the right word for. In addition, native English-speaking researchers face the baffling challenge of deciphering what their non-native English-speaking colleagues are trying to say.
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Ribes, R., Iannarelli, P., Duarte, R.F. (2009). The Laboratory Environment. In: English for Biomedical Scientists. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77127-2_11
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