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Like office workers escaping from the perceived confines of cubicles, today’s scientists have been freed from the trappings of the typical lab bench. Advances in technology allowing for increased ...

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Laboratory ergonomics involves designing workstations, tools, and processes to best fit the worker and optimize performance of the work system. Ergonomics addresses the whole human, spanning physical, ...

Funsho Fakuade has spent a lot of time in the dark. As a PhD student studying ion channels and cardiac arrhythmias at Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany, his work typically involves ...