The lab is quietly bustling with scientists intent on their work. One gestures to an item on her bench—a yellow container, about the size of a novel. It's almost full to the brim with used plastic ...

The average Covid-19 test requires four pipette tips, and the U.S. is running over a million of those tests each day. Photo by Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, a ...

The old workhorse for scientists transferring small amounts of liquid from one spot to another is the pipette. But that venerable tool has a problem: It can transfer an electrical charge to the ...

The humble pipette tip is tiny, cheap, and utterly essential to science. It powers research into new medicines, Covid-19 diagnostics, and every blood test ever run. It is also, ordinarily, abundant — ...