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  • noun A very small pipette used in microinjection.
  • noun A pipette used to measure or draw very small amounts of liquids.

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  • noun A very small pipette

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Examples

  • A schematically shows how a glass micropipette is brought in contact with the cell, and B, using a higher magnification, a part of the cell membrane, with ion channels, in close contact with the tip of the pipette.

    Physiology or Medicine 1991 - Press Release 1991

  • Right now I don't think popular cell probing techniques such as micropipette aspiration, magnetic twisting cytometry and AFM can provide the material constants needed for the commercial package.

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

  • How To Make a Neuron Grow title Single Cell Electroporation in vivo within the Intact Developing Brain description How to perform single cell electroporation, using a micropipette to introduce DNA into a single neuron in tadpole brains.

    How To Make a Neuron Grow Sandra K 2008

  • How To Make a Neuron Grow title Single Cell Electroporation in vivo within the Intact Developing Brain description How to perform single cell electroporation, using a micropipette to introduce DNA into a single neuron in tadpole brains.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Sandra K 2008

  • Now Forgacs and a company called Sciperio have developed a device with printing heads that extrude clumps of cells mechanically so that they emerge one by one from a micropipette.

    Boing Boing: April 9, 2006 - April 15, 2006 Archives 2006

  • They hold the egg with a micropipette, suck up one of the sperm with a microscopic needle, somehow having cut the tail off, and inject the sperm head into the egg.

    A New Cosmic Variant John 2008

  • Because if the sperm count is low, what we can do is do a procedure called Ixy, which is where you pick up single sperm in a micropipette and actually inject it into the egg to get fertilization.

    CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2004 2004

  • The human egg recipient was enucleated with a micropipette.

    How pro-lifers view the PBA issue 2004

  • They developed a thin glass micropipette (a thousandths of a millimeter in diameter) as a recording electrode.

    Physiology or Medicine 1991 - Press Release 1991

  • On another micropipette, they put a red blood cell on which an antigen - technically known as a peptide-major histocompatibility complex - has been placed.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010

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