MAYHEM
Issue Two – November 2014
ISSN 2382-0322
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Erin Doyle
I used my own tips
1. They have to be sterile.
2. The black lines on the unbroken autoclave tape prove that my tips are sterile.
3. The plastic tips have white filters on the inside. The filters keep the tips clean.
4. An auto-pipette is used and stored upright. So nothing in the tip can touch the pipette.
The filter makes it impossible to fill the tip all the way up.
5. The pipette should be clean.
6. Except.
7. The pipettes are shared.
8. You can’t know if others keep the pipettes clean. Or, keep the lid closed on their tips.
DNA and inhibitors get inside when the lid is off.
9. So I used my own tips.
10. And, flooded the laminar flow with blue light, UV radiation.
11. It reduced the risk of contamination.
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