Let’s talk about love. Nothing new. It’s all around, in the air. In a scientific institute, which is as near a bio-bubble in everyday life as can be, we all see the tentative overtures of love, the distracted state of early love, love in full bloom and then sometimes the broken hearts mourning their loss, all through the lens of the frustrated guide or joyful friends or annoyed lab mates, depending on where we may be placed at that particular phase of life. So, one wonders why love stories are not written about love amidst the test tubes. I was pleasantly surprised to recently discover two separate books on this topic. Both set in biology labs, both poles apart from each other in their treatment of the topic. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood. Hazelwood is a cognitive neuroscientist (with all my googling I was unable to figure out where her lab is!) who, near the end of her PhD, got frustrated and decided to write romance novels in a science setting. Love Hypothesis, her first bo...