Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2021

The federal government and corporations such as LabCorp had failed to scale up COVID-19 testing, which often involved a tedious liquid transfer process called pipetting.

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

The scientists also built a robotic system to analyze the samples quickly; the old way, pipetting by hand, required several days to analyze only a fraction as many samples.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 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