1.   A key record at this stage is the laboratory notebook.

2.   Bound, hard cover books, laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree.

3.   The information in the electronic laboratory notebook can be highly integrated including the possibility of other media.

4.   Long-term, the introduction of electronic laboratory notebooks should be a net gain to history.

5.   Again, the laboratory notebooks show that this account was misleading.

6.   But Infigen claims that it first devised the technique and attempted to use it, and has the laboratory notebooks and internal documents to prove it.

7.   Finally, the evidence swabs were found taped in a laboratory notebook in the state archives.

8.   Geison is one of the few historians of science to base research on laboratory notebooks.

9.   Laboratory notebooks are crucial in cases where published reports cannot be verified, and they are relevant to debates about the honesty and integrity of contemporary scientists.

10.   Laboratory notebooks are indispensable to scientists in preserving the raw data of the experiments that are turned into published papers.