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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