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Table of Specialty Pipettors Table of Specialty Pipette Tips Specialty pipette tips are like the high-performance tires on a formula-one race car. While most people would imagine that fuel injectors, turbochargers, or transmissions are the fundamental elements of an advanced racing machine, few people consider the importance of tires, when in fact, according to authorities on racing, the whole purpose behind the design of an automobile is to create an environment where the tires contact the p

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Pipette tips are the tires on a pipettor. You might have the best pipettor that money can buy, with a digital display, active memory, and 10 different operation modes, but if you're using the wrong pipette tip to deliver the sample, it's the same as riding on rims.

A great variety of pipette tips has been developed in recent years for electrophoresis and PCR. These range from the rough-and-ready wide-bore tips--the pipetting equivalent of snow tires--to the very delicate ultramicro tips. Each of these has been designed to correct a specific problem or fulfill an important need that has arisen from the revolution in molecular biology.

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One of the important issues relative to pipette tips is knowing what kind of bore diameter to use. Pipette tips with greater bore size permit the pipetting of high molecular weight DNA without shearing. These are useful for ...

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