We provide mail-in and on-site pipette calibration services at the Lab People and the Scale People. Both of these services have advantages and disadvantages, and we’re here today to list a few of each to make the decision easier for… Read More
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Mail-in Pipette Service
The Lab People and the Scale People offer quick and easy pipette calibration and repair services with their mail-in service options. Pipettes are calibrated with our ISO 17025 Accredited and ISO 9001 registered calibration lab in Columbia, MD. Our crew of pipette calibration technicians… Read More
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Types of Liquid Handling Devices, More Than Pipettes
With liquid handling options spanning the range from a basic pipette to a full-scale, multifunction workstation, picking the ideal system for your application could be mind-boggling. Automated systems can be optimized for various techniques, including ELISA, time-resolved fluoresce, PCR setup,… Read More
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Pipette 101: Positive Displacement
Positive displacement pipettes are crucial players in the laboratory liquid handling toolbox. Volatile liquids vaporize, losing volume when you’re in contact with air. Viscous liquids, because of their density, might expand or compress air while pressurized in a moving or closed chamber…. Read More
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Choosing Pipette Tips
Pipette tip selection should always be prioritized alongside any technique and pipette calibration to help produce dependable experimental results. This article will provide some background and criteria for evaluating and picking pipette tips that will not adversely influence an experiment’s preliminary results…. Read More
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Pipette 101: Reverse Pipetting
Reverse pipetting is aspirating a bit extra to dispense the proper amount. Reverse pipetting is handy while pipetting viscous, foaming, and high vapor pressure or other low surface tension liquids. The technique is mainly recommended for solutions with high viscosity or a… Read More
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Cleaning Guide for Pipettes
Pipettes are precision instruments whose performance can be seriously impacted if not appropriately maintained. To help keep the level of purity that is crucial in various laboratory applications, proper cleaning and decontamination of pipettes are crucial. Cleaning refers to the… Read More
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Preventing Contamination from Pipettes
Mycoplasma is a very common bacterial contaminator in cell culture labs. Studies have found that mycoplasmas contamination is in many cell lines tested. They’re even shown to contaminate liquid nitrogen storage tanks where cell stocks are stored. They are resistant to… Read More
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Ergonomic Pipetting
Ergonomics around pipetting could affect one’s pipetting technique and pipetting results. Applications and assays are more sensitive, miniaturized, and perform quicker. To get some reliable data out of the assays, smaller volume errors have to be avoided since they could… Read More
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Avoiding Contamination for Your Pipettes
Preventing contamination with your pipettes is vital for achieving reliable results. It will require the identification of the possible contamination mechanisms so that they can all be adequately addressed. Aerosols, suspensions of any liquid or solid particles in a gas, are formed… Read More