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Scientists across the spectrum — at universities, at public health labs, at biotechs — are facing a global shortage of pipette tips that threatens to upend their work.

Adding insult to that injury: Many of them don’t actually understand their distributors’ process for determining which orders will be filled first, or how much of they’re order they’ll actually get. 

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Both the Trump and Biden administrations have used federal law — the Defense Production Act, specifically — to ensure federal contracts for Covid-19 testing supplies are filled first. 

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