Gift Ideas For Lab Rats

Out of Christmas present ideas for the scientist in your life? Here are ten options that any lab rat is sure to love.


  1. Mug
  2. The geekier the better. Credit: Brian Wilkins/CC/Flickr.

    Need a container to dispense coffee into? That autoclaved beaker certainly won’t do. If you’ve noticed your scientist colleague hovering around the coffee machine with said beaker, please get him or her a mug. Ideally, the mug should have a nerdy design printed on it, or even better, a temperature-sensitive motif that changes when hot liquid is poured into it. But please, have some sincerity and don’t just wrap a common mug in autoclave tape.

Jeremy received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he studied the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression.

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