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In the face of increased demand for COVID-19 testing supplies and events like storms and border closures disrupting the plastic supply chain, research labs across the country are running low on crucial plastic lab materials such as pipette tips, gloves and centrifuge tubes.
The national pipette tip shortage has trickled down to lab benches at Cornell, where dwindling supplies have pushed researchers to adapt. Through creativity and collaboration, many Cornell researchers were able to navigate the shortages and avoid severe roadblocks to their research.
Pipette tips are some of the most essential pieces of lab equipment, used to dispense liquids while preventing cross-contamination. Because pipette tips can only be used once, labs can go through several boxes of pipette tips in a day, with each box holding about 96 tips. As a result, a lab’s supply of pipette tips needs to be constantly replenished to run research experiments smoothly.