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Defense attorneys had lined up a Texas lab regarded as one of the most respected in the nation, with the head of that lab testifying that the testing and analysis of any DNA that could be extracted would take two weeks or less.—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026 Even engineering heavyweights and frontier labs are losing ground as users are demanding more than hyperscalers are prepared to deliver—a tension that’s reached a boiling point as teams like OpenAI race to ship both breakthrough capabilities and unprecedented uncertainty at the same time.—Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
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On the institute’s two outdoor patios and throughout its labs and classrooms, kids and parents gathered around interactive stations featuring robotics demonstrations, silk-screen printing, 3D modeling and reptiles.—Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025 Snails are often slow to breed in the lab, but golden apple snails are an invasive species and thrive in that environment, per co-author Alice Accorsi, a molecular biologist at the University of California, Davis.—ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lab