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Alison 12 trees has come to london to give the most important presentation of her career. Less than an hour from now, she'll walk in front of a panel of 30 experts and give a five minute talk. This talk will determine whether her new lab succeeds or fails. She's pitching for over a million pounds. One point on one million to be exact. That's enough to run her fledgling lab for at least five years,. paying her own salary, recruiting and paying staff and buying a microscope that she can't do her work without.

Every year, thousands of scientists struggle to launch their own labs. For three years, a reporting team from Nature documented the lives of married couple Alison Twelvetrees and Daniel Bose as they worked to get their fledgling research groups off the ground.

Frustrations over funding, a global pandemic, and a personal trauma have made this journey anything but simple for Ali and Dan. Listen to their story in Starting up in science.

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What does it take to start up in science? Meet two biologists fighting the odds to build their careers and break new ground. But their first priority is getting grants – without them, their labs might not stay afloat.

Read a written version of Starting up in science

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