Did you know that the modern micropipette was invented by a German postdoc so frustrated with mouth pipetting that he ditched his lab for two days until could return with a prototype' Or that an 18th-century scientist sewed tiny taffeta pants for male frogs to determine whether or not semen was essential for fertilization' Or that an Italian physician spent 30 years weighing himself in a specially designed chair before and after eating, sleeping, and excreting to figure out exactly what accounted for the discrepancies he noticed' These stories and more, from how a machine using salvaged meat-slicing blades chopped up 6,000 glowing jellyfish per day and led to the discovery of GFP to how grabbing the wrong bottle while studying rooster sperm lead to modern cryopreservation, appear in our third book, Making the Modern Laboratory, now available for pre-order. Over 504-pages, 36 authors explain the origins of our most dependable and insightful research tools, making it a fine gift for...
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