Pipettes and Pipetting

Hello All,

At the risk of insulting your intelligence I am posting some basic information about pipettes and pipetting so you won’t have any excuses for poor practice at the lab bench. The main reason that it is important to use our pipettes correctly is that we share them. Its not just your work that will be affected if you seriously contaminate a pipette or throw it out of calibration.

If you have an undergrad or new volunteer or employee doing anything with our pipettes show them this post and make them read the manual (below).

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