: measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube_________The word pipette has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 13 in “3 Vans, 6 Coolers, a Plane, a Storm and 2 Labs: A Nasal Swab’s Journey” by Rukmini Callimachi:In Chantilly, the machine used to analyze the samples, known as the Roche Cobas 8800, can run 376 tests at once. It takes between three and four hours for the machine to do one cycle. In theory, it can perform 500 tests in under eight hours. But before anything can happen, a human being needs to do the painstaking work of loading each sample into the machine. As the sun rose on Wednesday morning, a scientist used a pipette to remove liquid from each tube and place it in the testing apparatus.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2020 06:00 UTC