Pipette Monkeys

So welcome to the opening of Pipette Monkeys….
The blog is named in honour of our unofficial job title. Despite the glamorous image given to scientists in movies (err…there must be one where scientists are cool/get laid), we’re of the belief that 90% of what we do could be done by monkeys. The reasons that it isn’t: 1. Animal welfare laws are tougher than scientist welfare laws in most labs and 2. Health and Safety laws prevent the use of bananas (even as a motivational tool) in most molecular biology labs….