Among the pieces of equipment you list here, the one I think may have had the greatest impact on modern biochemistry and biotechnology is missing: the adjustable Pipetman. It's difficult to imagine how experiments could be done without it. It dramatically lowered the quantities of material required for an experiment; increased the number of time points and variable each experiment could test; made the amount transferrable continuously variable; and eliminated the need to put something in your mouth in the lab. If you've ever seen their predecessor (the Lang Levy pipette, or some other form of glass pipette) you realize how different and constrained research was before Pipetmen appeared.
You make a great point! We should have mentioned: The reason we didn't include the adjustable micropipette, GFP, centrifuge etc. in this Call for Stories is only because we've already published essays on them. They will be in the book!
I cannot wait to see this! I'll be sending you an email, but just to publicly comment with a few more things you can consider: developmental biology models (eg xenopus frogs, which because a model organism because they were used as pregnancy tests), dev bio tools (in situ hybridization, fate mapping by eg Cre-LoxP system) and some other random things (like liquid nitrogen; besides "growth media" in general you could spotlight FBS, and/or trypsin as standards for cell culture).
Among the pieces of equipment you list here, the one I think may have had the greatest impact on modern biochemistry and biotechnology is missing: the adjustable Pipetman. It's difficult to imagine how experiments could be done without it. It dramatically lowered the quantities of material required for an experiment; increased the number of time points and variable each experiment could test; made the amount transferrable continuously variable; and eliminated the need to put something in your mouth in the lab. If you've ever seen their predecessor (the Lang Levy pipette, or some other form of glass pipette) you realize how different and constrained research was before Pipetmen appeared.
You make a great point! We should have mentioned: The reason we didn't include the adjustable micropipette, GFP, centrifuge etc. in this Call for Stories is only because we've already published essays on them. They will be in the book!
https://www.asimov.press/p/making-the-micropipette
Wow ... this is an amazing idea👍. Am excited to see how this will go down.
I cannot wait to see this! I'll be sending you an email, but just to publicly comment with a few more things you can consider: developmental biology models (eg xenopus frogs, which because a model organism because they were used as pregnancy tests), dev bio tools (in situ hybridization, fate mapping by eg Cre-LoxP system) and some other random things (like liquid nitrogen; besides "growth media" in general you could spotlight FBS, and/or trypsin as standards for cell culture).
Haven't you forgotten an item here? ;-)