The laboratory has never stopped busy. Cell culture, upflow, gene extraction, qPCR, electrophoresis, sequencing… Everyone is surrounded by such precision instruments as flow cytometer, qPCR and sequencer.
At this time, the pipette and the suction head are very simple.
Does simplicity mean unimportance?
Of course not!!!
The pipette operation runs through almost all the experimental processes. The wrong pipetting will directly affect the experimental results and even lead to the failure of the experiment.
It will not only cost extra time and money, but also waste the samples that are hard to accumulate, and miss the opportunity to release the research results first. It is not worth the loss.
So is it OK to maintain, maintain and calibrate the pipette regularly to keep the best performance and use the correct pipetting technology at the same time?
The above process is a necessary condition to ensure the accuracy of the pipetting results, but in addition, the disposable consumables such as the pipette tip are most easily ignored. It should be noted that the tip is in direct contact with the liquid sample, which will not only affect the accuracy of the pipetting results, but also directly affect the analysis results due to dissolution and the presence of foreign biological pollutants.
How to choose a good pipette tip? The next article will cover this in detail.
Post time: Aug-12-2022