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There are jobs for labratory scientists in many different types of labs, even in industrial settings.

tist. Oftentimes, medical lab technicians will work for a few years, while still going to school, to gain experience in a lab as they are pursuing their bachelor’s degree to become a full med- ical laboratory scientist. Medical lab technicians have less schooling in comparison to medical laboratory scientists and also are not as qualified in performing tasks in the lab. Medical laboratory scientists typi- cally must obtain a bachelor’s degree in either medical labora- tory sciences or clinical laboratory sciences. Medical lab tech- nicians generally need an associate’s degree or a post-second-

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