Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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The human egg recipient was enucleated with a micropipette.
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They developed a thin glass micropipette (a thousandths of a millimeter in diameter) as a recording electrode.
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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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