pipette

With a pipette, she places a single drop of this liquid on a gold-coated glass plate positioned under an optical microscope.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025

It is exactly what she's trying to achieve - that way she can suck the venom from its fangs using a small pipette.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2024

Terrica Purvis squinted through goggles as her hands carefully guided a pipette full of indigo-tinted fluid into clear glass test tubes.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

It involved scraping cells from the cervix with a curved glass pipette and examining them under a microscope for precancerous changes that TeLinde and a few others had identified years earlier.

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

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

On a recent evening, masked students sat around stainless-steel tables in the scent lab at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, pipettes at the ready.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

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

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 Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

He wanted to extract and read DNA from his inside cheek, but his unsteady hand kept bungling the pipetting process at Genspace.

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

DNA was resuspended by adding 20 μl H2O and incubating for 20 min at 4 °C before mixing by gentle pipetting.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

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