She lost her job over a paper lab coat. A Brooklyn woman says she was canned from her $18-an-hour gig at Coney Island Hospital after 27 years because she refused to wear the coat, which made her sick.

Whenever London-based cell biologist Jennifer Rohn joins a new lab, she finds herself being ushered over to a cardboard box filled with an array of lab coats. It’s then that she’s given her first task ...

In order to encourage more of the nation’s young people to pursue careers in science, it pays to help them dress the part. That is the key finding of a study we conducted recently to determine what ...