This sounds tough if all you want to do is run screaming for the hills, scattering
pipettes in your wake.
However, new research from an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis finds a great benefit in an unlikely place for the pesky dandelion: each of its tiny seeds can be used as a perfect
pipette in the laboratory setting.
Kodandaramaiah, Boyden and Forest set out to automate a 30 - year - old technique known as whole - cell patch clamping, which involves bringing a tiny hollow glass
pipette in contact with the cell membrane of a neuron, then opening up a small pore in the membrane to record the electrical activity within the cell.
Without squeezing, place the tip of
the pipette in the sample.
Not exact matches
Top quality, innovative design and state - of - the - art production result
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Chen Gu and colleagues at The Ohio State University discovered that they could induce the formation of axonal varicosities
in hippocampal neurons grown
in the lab by «puffing» them with bursts of liquid from a small
pipette.
The kids then use
pipettes to drip liquid water color onto the clouds until it eventually works it's way through and begins to «rain» on the underside
in fabulous rainbow - y swirls.
Lacking money to outfit the new lab, Wang and Xin bought used equipment: a single channel DNA sequencer (bought and barely touched by a Harvard Medical School researcher); second - hand centrifuges and
pipettes; a reconditioned CytoScan HD system that detects variations
in the number of copies of a gene.
I recently finished my Ph.D. and have decided to set down my
pipette to explore the world of science
in government.
Unlike traditional
pipettes, which draw up liquids using suction, the liverwort relies on the surface tension of the water to hold droplets, says study coauthor Hirofumi Wada, a physicist at Ritsumeikan University
in Kusatsu, Japan.
A motorized
pipette sucks
in chemical vapors above what may be a grave and channels them to a hair - thin probe coated with an oxide of aluminum.
I grabbed three small plastic tubes from the freezer, picked up a
pipette — a hand - held instrument, used
in labs to measure out liquids — from my DIY kit, and started adding the CRISPR ingredients to tubes of E. coli.
«They really felt like they were
in chemistry using the
pipettes and chemicals.
The Koken Company of Tokyo designed the rats so that students could practise common procedures such as dosing the animals by mouth with
pipettes, injecting veins
in the tail and inserting feeding tubes into the throat.
The researchers report
in last week's Nature (28 January, p 333) that the tubes behaved like extremely small
pipettes, sucking the lead into them.
When they generated S. Typhi lacking the Vi capsular polysaccharide and tested them
in both experimental settings, they found that these behaved just like S. Typhimurium, i.e. evoked the «reach - out» response
in pipette - held neutrophils and,
in the Boyden chamber, elicited migration of neutrophils to the bottom compartment.
They immobilized the bacterium with laser tweezers
in close proximity to a neutrophil held by a tiny glass
pipette.
A technician
in a Kyoto University lab uses an electronic
pipette to transfer cells into petri dishes before they are placed into an incubator.
«My position allows me to participate
in great science without having to
pipette anything.»
For example, neuroscientists currently use dye injected into the brain and lasers to be able to guide a glass
pipette to the site they are interested
in.
If fluorescent nanoparticles were embedded
in the glass
pipettes, the unique luminescence of the hybrid glass could act like a torch to guide the
pipette directly to the individual neurons of interest.»
OK, hit the brakes and hold onto your
pipettes: There's no harm
in being ambitious, but you have to first plan, equip, organize and build your research home, and that takes good judgement and skill.
Via the
pipette a red dye diffuses into the cell, rendering them visible
in the brain slice.
«Here you literally just put an insert
in,
pipette the cells through the top of the insert, and it deposits them with precision onto specific regions on the electrode array.
Harvesting venom is easier when working with large spiders, which secrete the toxin — then collected noninvasively with a
pipette —
in sufficient amounts for researchers to analyze and test.
Using a
pipette full of water, fresh volcanic ash and mathematical modelling, Sanjoy Som at the University of Washington
in Seattle worked out how the size of imprints related to the speed at which the rain fell through the ancient atmosphere.
This is,
in fact, one of the most appealing aspects of science: We're more than just the people who push the
pipette buttons.
«If you look at drug discovery companies, one pipetting robot uses a million
pipette tips
in one week,» Umapathi says.
The Vacanti lab's technique includes what they call an «extremely important step» that was not described
in the Nature paper or updated protocol published earlier: forcing the mature cells through very small
pipettes for at least 25 minutes before exposing them to the acid solution.
In the experiments, Sun used a needle - like glass
pipette to partially aspirate and grab dye - filled GUVs, which were then placed into a melittin - infused solution beneath the microscope.
In brief, Matrigel (1 mg / ml) was placed on ice and thawed overnight at 4 °C, and then 120 μl were applied to each well of a precooled 48 - well plate using chilled
pipette tips.
In 1994, as a postdoctoral researcher then at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, he became the first scientist to «patch» two living neurons simultaneously — to apply microscopic pipettes to freshly harvested rat neurons to measure the electrical signals fired between the
In 1994, as a postdoctoral researcher then at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
in Heidelberg, Germany, he became the first scientist to «patch» two living neurons simultaneously — to apply microscopic pipettes to freshly harvested rat neurons to measure the electrical signals fired between the
in Heidelberg, Germany, he became the first scientist to «patch» two living neurons simultaneously — to apply microscopic
pipettes to freshly harvested rat neurons to measure the electrical signals fired between them.
We used microscopes,
pipettes, and petri dishes just like real scientists — I was
in heaven!
Ronald W. Davis, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. $ 450,000 (2 years) «Single Molecule Nucleic Acid Detection with Nanopipettes» This group takes a stepwise approach to single nucleic acid molecule detection, using the nanoscale pore
in a pulled glass
pipette to measure single DNA molecules with attached nanoparticles.
Using a dual
pipette aspiration assay, elastic properties of the actomyosin cortex can be estimated
in vitro.
Using a dual
pipette aspiration assay, the relative contribution of contractility and adhesion to cell - cell contact formation can be measured
in vitro.
Using a dual
pipette aspiration assay, the strength of adhesion of contacting cells can be measured
in vitro.
Each single cell was carried through two rinses of PBS using a finely drawn glass capillary
pipette under a dissecting microscope and then transferred
in a minimal volume (0.5 µL) to a PCR tube containing lysis buffer, protease, tRNA and poly - T gripNA ™ probe (mTRAP ™ midi - kit, Active Motif, cat.
This Paleo Honey & Sea Salt Nut Medley recipe, which is used
in our Paleo Pear & Pecan Salad, is made with pecans,
pipettes, sunflower seeds, honey, vanilla and sea salt.
This Paleo Honey & Sea Salt Nut Medley recipe, which is used
in our Paleo Pear & Pecan Salad, is made with pecans,
pipettes, sunflower seeds,...
For undergraduates, the Little Shop of Physicsis akin to a job
in a research lab, except thatthe materials include salad spinners andketchup packets rather than oscilloscopesor
pipettes.
However, the Boston Children's Hospital's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience isn't a laboratory filled with
pipettes or test tubes but with colorful toys, animal murals, and brain imaging «hats» where Edwards researches how children on the autism spectrum are able to imitate
in learning situations.
Students usually love working
in the lab and using all the awesome equipment: beakers, clamps,
pipettes, microscopes and the list goes on and on!
Includes apparatus symbols, photos and labels for the following scientific apparatus: Bunsen Burner, heat mat, beaker, clamp and stand, conical flask, evaporating dish, filter funnel, flat bottom flask, gas jar, wire gauze, measuring cylinder,
pipette, round bottom flask, spatula, test tube, boiling tube, thermometer, watch glass, tripod (see example
in preview).
When you set your stop loss and tp it shows
in pips, but it's really
in pipettes (Points).
Some brokers quote fractional pips, or
pipettes, for added precision
in quoting rates.
Ensure that the capillary tube
in the sample
pipette has been completely filled (an air bubble will be visible at the top of the capillary tube if it has not been completely filled).
The capillary tube
in the
pipette will fill automatically
in 2 - 3 seconds.
Serum is produced
in the lab by spinning the blood
in a centrifuge and using a
pipette to remove the liquid portion.
BRAVECTO Topical is available
in a convenient, single - dose spot - on, and is applied topically using the new «Twist»n' Use» TM
pipette design for ease of application.