Several years ago as a freshman in a research lab, the very first project I received was to pipette incremental micro-volumes of H2O onto a piece of parafilm. Boring! Weighing the liquid on parafilm and comparing the weight between 10 replicates for each micro-volume continued for a week before I touched anything else in that [...]
Danger: You Might be Pipetting Yourself Out of a Job
You might be proud of your pipetting skills (if not, check this out), and be churning out data faster than a liquid handling robot, but beware… you might also be pipetting yourself out of a job. I almost did. Pain due to pipetting is common; Hand pain is reported by 90% of people that pipette in continuous [...]
