This document provides information on various bead-based tissue homogenizers. It describes the types of grinding beads available, including stainless steel, zirconium oxide, zirconium silicate, and glass, ranked in order of density. It also outlines different types of sample chamber movement, sample sizes and throughput capacities, motion speeds, cooling designs, specific low-throughput and high-throughput homogenizer models, and options for pre-filled tubes for homogenization.
1. Lab equipment and reagents
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-bead based tissue homogenizers
2. Bead Based Tissue Homogenizers
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High density beads in a closed sample chamber with tissue
samples
Homogenizer agitate sample vessels
Beads in the sample chamber move fast to shred tissue
samples, or grind up sample pieces
3. Types of Grinding Beads
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Stainless steel: high density
Zirconium Oxide: high density, inert surface
Zirconium Silicate:
Glass:
Density: stainless steel>Zirconium Oxide>Zirconium
Silicate>Glass
4. Types of sample chamber movement
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Linear motion: entire sample chamber moves front left to
right or up down. HT-01 Homogenizer
S shape motion:TissueLyzer, GenoGrinder
3D motion: Precellys, Minilys, Powerlyzer,TissueRaptor
5. Sample size and through-put
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Low through-put: one to three samples per run: BeadBug,
Minilys, CryoGrinder
High through-put: Precellys, BulletBlender
Sample tube size:
Single tube design: for optimal performance
Flexible tube size: defined sample chamber size, fit different
size tubes, plates
Combination design: for different size tubes
7. Cooling Design
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No cooling and require softened tissue samples to start with:
BeadBug, Minilys, BulletBlender
No cooling, but work with frozen solid tissue samples:
Minilys, Precellys
Built-in dry ice cooling: BulletBlender Gold
Attached dry ice or liquid nitrogen cooling: Precellys with
Cryolys
8. Low through put homogenizers
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BeadBug: for one to three 2ml tube, room temperature
operation
Minilys: for upto three 2ml tubes, or one 7ml tube
CryoGrinder: manually process one sample at a time, work
with CryoCooler with liquid nitrogen
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9. Bullet Blender Storm
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Models for 2ml tubes, 5ml tubes and 50ml tubes
Each works only one type of tube size
Up to 24 samples per run
Built-in cooling fan to facilitate air circulation
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10. Bullet Blender Gold
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Models for 2ml, 5ml or 50ml tubes
With built in dry ice bucket for cooling
Fixed tube size design
Extra sound insulation resulting a quiet operation
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11. High Through Put Homogenizer
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Fixed sample chamber for 2ml, 5ml, 15ml or 30ml or 96
well plates
Linear motion
Room temperature operation
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