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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 a typical bench scientist might grab dozens every day.
But now, a series of ill-timed breaks along the pipette tip supply chain spurred by blackouts, fires, and pandemic-related demand have created a global shortage that is threatening nearly every corner of the scientific world.
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The pipette tip shortage is already endangering programs across the country that screen newborn babies for potentially deadly conditions, like the inability to digest sugars in breast milk. It is threatening universities’ experiments on stem cell genetics. And it is forcing biotech companies working to develop new drugs to consider prioritizing certain experiments over others.
Olathe Planning Commission approves proposed medical-office building
City council must give final approval
A lot on the northwest corner of 151st Street and Quivira Road has sat vacant for more than a decade. Now, Olathe Health is looking to build a two-story medical office building on it.
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OLATHE, Kan. â A lot on the northwest corner of 151st Street and Quivira Road has sat vacant for more than a decade. Now, Olathe Health is looking to build a two-story medical office building on it.
Jason Neat lives in the Harmony View West subdivision next to where the more than 67,000-square-foot proposed building and its nearly 300 parking spots would go.
Mark Moy, a Flagler County Sheriff’s detective, has been with the agency 14 years. (FCSO)
Mark A. Moy, a 14-year veteran of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office and a well-regarded detective with roles in high-profile arrests and convictions of murderers and molesters, was arrested today on a domestic battery charge today, suspended without pay and relieved of duty pending further investigations.
The allegation of domestic violence stems from an incident that unfolded over a two-hour span late Thursday night into early Friday morning, involving a 19-year-old woman who appears to be Moy’s daughter from a previous marriage. She was in her bedroom at Moy’s house in Flagler Beach, video-chatting with a friend, when she went to the kitchen to get a bag of chips.