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pipette

[pahy-pet, pi-] / paɪˈpɛt, pɪ- /


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Because the wells were so small, they couldn’t simply pipette liquids into them.

From New York Times

The fragmented and siloed world of laboratory science became the crux of the crisis; the fate of millions rested upon hand pipettes and fax machines.

From Los Angeles Times

One by one, he and his collaborators inactivated genes until they identified the single one that, when disabled, made the cells insensitive to the poke of a tiny pipette.

From New York Times

To find the sensors that underlie touch, Patapoutian, at Scripps Research, poked cells with a tiny pipette tip to find the ones that responded with an electrical signal.

From Washington Post

Patapoutian also discovered the gene that enables nerve cells to sense pressure—being poked, for example, by a pipette.

From Science Magazine