Now, a similar crisis is affecting scientists in the lab: a shortage of disposable, sterile plastic products, especially pipette tips, Sally Herships and David Gura report for NPR’s The Indicator.

Pandemic related demand for testing supplies and vaccine R&D have created unprecedented increases in usage of a several plastic product categories including pipette tips. Additionally, federal ...

Used pipette tips fall under this category, making them one of the greatest sources of plastic waste in labs and stymying the effort to curb plastic consumption overall. Daniel Mendoza ’25, a student ...

Lower-than-usual amounts of raw materials isn’t the only factor that’s throttling supply chains — and pipette tips aren’t the only plastic-based piece of lab gear that’s been in short ...

Furthermore, plastic pipette tips – a one-use product that delivers small amounts of liquid for experiments – also leached chemicals that block biological reactions. And chemicals from plastic ...

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Pipette tips aren’t the only laboratory items in ... Eventually, she’ll “find someone to manufacture a plastic pipette tip,” she said. “But I can’t find someone with the years of ...

First, it was medical masks, then oxygen tanks and plastic pipette tips. Pandemic shortages have sent the country's hospitals, workers, labs and consumers scouring for critical medical supplies ...

In September, PhD student Samantha Seah challenged herself to collect all the plastic and nitrile waste she used in her lab in one day. Pipette tips, tubes, gloves, they quickly added up.

utm_source=GNW However, the reuse of plastic pipette tips hampers the market growth. The novel discoveries of technologies in genomics have led to extraordinary changes in the healthcare industry.The ...