Safe, Convenient Pipetting Station

Safe, convenient, portable pipettor.

A dafe, convenient, portable pipetting device that will accommodate any size pipette is described. A vacuum bulb eliminates the need for external vacuum. Necessary components, fabrication procedures, and operating techniques are given.

Hazards of mouth pipetting.

Biometric Authentication Platform for a Safe, Secure, and Convenient Society

Yosuke Kaga Yusuke Matsuda Kenta Takahashi, Ph.D. Akio Nagasaka, Ph.D. OVERVIEW: With the rise of issues such as cyber-crime and terrorist threats that have accompanied the growing use of information technology, biometric authentication has attracted attention as a means of identifying individuals to ensure security. However, biometric authentication is mainly used by individuals or individual ...

Solving the Tyranny of Pipetting

Stephen Quake is the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Here he reviews the early history of microfluidics and discusses more recent developments, with a focus on applications in biology and biochemistry.

Automation of Routine Microplate Pipetting and Dispensing

Quantitative assays of all sorts are common to many applications in basic science and clinical research. Most of these assays require the movement, either addition or subtraction, of liquid reagents. Historically these assays were performed in test tubes. However, regardless of the assay method employed, laboratories requiring high throughput have often adapted the described protocol to a 96-we...