Micropipette tips are a must-have in every scientific laboratory. They are used across various life science, chemistry, pharmaceutical, and molecular biology applications.

Choosing the right kind of tip is crucial for repeatable pipetting results. Poor-quality tips can lead to experimental errors, waste of samples or reagents, and even physical harm in the form of repetitive stress injury (RSI).

Polypropylene

Pipettes are essential for laboratories working with a variety of liquids. Precision and accuracy are crucial in medicine, biology, and chemistry.

The need for accurate pipetting has led to the development of many different types of micropipette tips. Various styles of these tips can help you achieve the exact liquid volume you need for your experiment.

Wide Orifice: Designed with wider orifices, these tips are perfect for transferring delicate cell lines, genomic DNA, macrophages, and other fragile samples. The larger orifices enable these tips to overcome shearing and flow resistance that can cause sample fragmentation.

Hydrophobic: Using a unique polypropylene blend, these tips prevent aerosols from contaminating the pipette shaft. This characteristic makes them ideal for radioisotope handling, DNA amplification, and other biological applications where sterility is a top priority.

Available in various shapes and sizes, these tips are manufactured from virgin polypropylene to ensure purity. They are free from RNase, DNase, and Pyrogen and are tested for compatibility with pipettes from leading brands.

Sterile

If you use a micropipette for any biological application, you must ensure the tips are sterile. This is because they can carry physical or chemical contaminants into samples that can impact results.

To ensure sterility, pipette tips are manufactured in a clean room environment. The process involves several steps, including selecting quality raw materials, manufacturing tools/protocols, and maintaining consistent product quality.

Low-retention, hydrophobic, sterile tips are increasingly popular as they can deliver high-quality results for research and testing applications. They are produced using specialized raw materials subjected to rigorous quality testing before being packaged.

These micropipette tips come in racks and are sterilized by electron beam radiation, then plastic sealed to be sterile. They are also filtered to prevent cross-contamination. They are universally sized and have minor volume graduation marks on the side of each tip.

Racked

Racked micropipette tips are a convenient way to mount pipette tips in one efficient motion. These reloads are available in stackable, anti-wobble racks that hold up to 960 tips.

They’re also less expensive than racked bulk tips, making them an excellent choice for labs that use large pipettes and multiple well plates daily. To avoid contamination issues, you can sterilize reloads and their storage boxes/racks in your autoclave.

Using a specialized tip is essential for ensuring the accuracy and repeatability of results and pipetting comfort. Ergonomic tips require lower insertion and ejection forces, which reduces the risk of repetitive stress injury (RSI).

Bulk

A micropipette is a simple yet critical scientific instrument used to transfer a precise liquid volume precisely from one container to another. Today, there are a variety of pipettes, including piston-stroke, automated/robotic, and electronic pipettors.

A vital component of any pipette is its pipette tip. Whether it is a disposable, non-sterile tip, or a sterilized tip, these are used to transfer reagents and samples between different containers.

Bulk micropipette tips are available in a wide range of sizes and packages to meet the needs of any laboratory. They are manufactured in a cleanroom under the latest state-of-the-art production conditions and automatically shrink-wrapped in reclinable bags and packaged in cardboard boxes.

These bulk micropipette tips are available in standard and filter versions to meet any lab’s needs. Filtered tips are widely used for Covid testing, protecting the sample against contamination or damage. They also find application in susceptible biological studies that involve the use of viscous reagents and detergents.