pipette

A disposable lancet must pierce the skin, before drops of blood can be sucked into a pipette, mixed with a chemical and placed in the test cassette.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

Holding a pipette carefully in one hand, Laxamana talked through the radio to troubleshoot the problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024

Whenever he saw standing water Gomes grabbed a hand pipette out of his bag and looked for larvae, which he collected in a white plastic container.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Latex floating on the top of the remaining liquid is slurped up with a pipette and rinsed up to three times for purification, and then dried.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024

After the funeral Mammachi asked Rahel to help her to locate and remove her contact lenses with the little orange pipette that came in its own case.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Tiny glass pipettes were used to fill the champagne bottles - but the bubbles had to be removed to make this possible.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2024

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 ● Oct. 15, 2021

When squeezed in front of the eye, lemon peel produced tears on demand, which were collected in glass pipettes and placed into tubes for study.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2021

We moved down the aisle of his lab, amid a jumble of computer screens and rows of lab desks, beakers, binders and pipettes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2018

They could travel from one culture to the next on unwashed hands or used pipettes; they could ride from lab to lab on researchers’ coats and shoes, or through ventilation systems.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Samples of a solution are pipetted into the wells of a gel.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

After the bottles rolled for three days, he pipetted out the snow and analyzed the number of microplastics in each flake.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

The researchers took nematodes from diseased trees, pipetted them onto the buds of young, healthy trees in a greenhouse, then waited for symptoms to appear and reisolated the nematode from the affected leaves.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 14, 2019

Thomas pipetted a few drops of each compound into Petri dishes filled with bacteria that had been genetically engineered to manufacture the human enzyme suppressed by lithium — and eventually got a hit.

From Nature ● Jun. 13, 2016

Next he pipetted it into a centrifuge tube and centrifuged it at high speed, some sixteen thousand revolutions, until the serum was perfectly clear, with no trace of a reddish tint, nor even cloudy.

From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

The federal government and corporations such as LabCorp had failed to scale up COVID-19 testing, which often involved a tedious liquid transfer process called pipetting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

This weekend, it’s offering a biohacker boot camp, pipetting and all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

To keep the process going, Kenny would drive to his darkened laboratory at odd hours of the night, carefully pipetting samples onto sequencing chips while the world around him slept.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2020

For example, routine laboratory procedures such as pipetting have minimal effect on sequences that are a few thousand bases long, but produce destructive shear forces on much larger fragments that can render the sequences unusable.

From Nature ● Feb. 23, 2020

Mary didn’t realize until months later that he’d been studying her hands, checking their dexterity and strength to see how they’d stand up to hours of delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot