The Drop You Can’t Afford to Lose: Recovering Precious Samples After a Microvolume Reading
Microvolume measurement has quietly redefined what counts as a usable sample. Where a cuvette once demanded hundreds of microlitres, modern instruments work routinely in the 0.3 to 2 µl range, and for a low-yield preparation — a small immunoprecipitation eluate, a laser-capture extract, a single fraction from a size-exclusion run — that droplet may be…