I am “learned to mouth pipette” years old!
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Same here. Boy I was glad when the bulbs came out, especially after accidentally getting a mouthful of pee when doing a pregnancy test. Not the rabbit kind, but the test tube kind that made a dot in the bottom of the tube.
aug 30, 2025, 12:27 pm • 1 0 • view
So are quite a few of us…personally, I’ve had acrylamide mix, phenol/chloroform and various solutions into my mouth. Autopipettes couldn’t have come too soon!
aug 30, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
One of my friends was learning to mouth pipette and her advisor handed her an E. coli culture to practice on!
aug 30, 2025, 5:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I am sure I got a Candida infection up my nose from a lab strain…”Sniff this plate!” we were told….
aug 30, 2025, 7:45 pm • 1 0 • view
K12 I hope.
aug 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed 100%!
aug 30, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes it was.
aug 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
same! (likewise acetone mouth siphoning for bucket biochemistry, not recommended really).
aug 30, 2025, 12:17 pm • 1 0 • view