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The Usdin Laboratory of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has a requirement to purchase an Andrew Alliance Pipetting Robot. The Usdin Laboratory is working t... The Usdin Laboratory of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) has a requirement to purchase an Andrew Alliance Pipetting Robot. The Usdin Laboratory is working to understand the molecular basis of a number of human genetic disorders with the ultimate goal of developing rational therapies for these currently incurable disorders. This work involves multiple precise but repetitive pipetting operations to isolate biomolecules and prepare them for analysis. A fully automated system is needed that is capable of the accurate dispensing of a wide range of liquid volumes into a variety of tube and well formats that is compact enough to fit in an incubator or small biosafety cabinet. The Andrew+ pipetting robot is a robust, compact, flexible and relatively inexpensive liquid handling device that will greatly improve the workflow for complex gene editing and genotyping experiments done routinely in the Usdin laboratory. This will save time and money and by automating these routine operations it will allow the researchers to devote more time to those other operations less amenable to automation that are essential for advancing the science.