Smithsonian Magazine

A Shortage of Plastic Pipette Tips Is Delaying Biology Research

The average Covid-19 test requires four pipette tips, and the U.S. is running over a million of those tests each day. Photo by Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, a ...

Scotland recycles 72,000 contaminated single-use plastic bottles in a world-first move as new technology targets Petri dishes and pipette tips

Scotland is taking a new approach to laboratory plastic waste. A new recycling system has already processed around 72,000 ...
STAT

How blackouts, fires, and a pandemic are driving shortages of pipette tips — and hobbling science

The humble pipette tip is tiny, cheap, and utterly essential to science. It powers research into new medicines, Covid-19 diagnostics, and every blood test ever run. It is also, ordinarily, abundant — ...
Labroots

Pipette Like a Pro: Practical Tips for Better Results

Do you use pipettes in your daily work? Want to improve your pipetting accuracy? To eliminate the guesswork, METTLER TOLEDO Rainin developed Good Pipetting Practice™ (GPP™) as a practical, ...