Bead Beating Tubes

Overview

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Features

- Efficient & Consistent hands-off sample homogenization.

- Compatible with all Bead Beating Machines; MO BIO recommends the use of the Precellys^® 24 Homogenizer.
 

Description

Our Bead Tubes are designed for a wide range of samples and applications such as veterinary diagnosic (BSE screening), pharmacology and toxicology (drug detection), criminology and forensic medicine, food industry (GMO detection), environmental microbiology (micro-organism lysis) and nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) and protein isolation.

The fast and easy to use protocol ensures successful lysis with even the most challenging samples for high efficiency and reliability.

• Metal Bead Tubes, 2.38 mm (2 ml) - 13117-50
- Made with the strongest tubes available on the market, these metal beads are particularly effective in grinding difficult tissue samples. Some examples of starting material used with these beads are hair, nail, bone, seeds, corn, nuts, rice, wheat, lung, muscle, brain, and liver.

• Ceramic Bead Tubes, 1.4 mm (2 ml) - 13113-50
- These small ceramic beads are perfect for low buffer and sample volumes. They have been used to homogenize brain, liver, kidney, and gonad tissue.

• Ceramic Bead Tubes, 2.8 mm (2 ml)- 13114-50
- Made with the strongest tubes available on the market, these larger ceramic beads have been specifically designed to homogenize a variety of human, animal, and plant tissues as well as several micro-organisms. Recommended sample types include lung, muscle, heart, bone, rice, wheat, leaves, bacteria, and spores.

• Glass Bead Tubes, 0.5 mm (2 ml)- 13116-50; and Glass Bead Tubes 0.1 mm (2 ml)- 13118-50
- These glass beads are best suited for breaking open micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, yeast, and spores.

• Carbide Bead Tubes, 0.25 mm* (0.5 ml) -13121-50
- Highly effective when isolating microbial RNA or soil RNA.

• Garnet Bead Tubes, 0.15 mm* (0.5 ml) - 13122-50; and Garnet Bead Tubes, 0.70 mm* (2 ml) - 13123-50
- Work faster than other beads due to the fact that particles have sharp cutting edges
- Sharp particles: Give optimal results with just a vortex
- Inert Mineral particles: Do not bind with nucleic acid (vs. glass beads)

* The bead size is an average

Sample Kit

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Specifications

Publications

• Wertz, J.T., Breznak, J.A. Physiological Ecology Of Stenoxybacter acetivorans, An Obligate Microaerophile In Termite Guts. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(21): 6829-6841 (2007).
• Wilkie, D.C., Van Kessel, A.G., Dumonceaux, T.J., Drew, M.D. The Effect Of Hen-Egg Antibodies On Clostridium perfringens Colonization In The Gastrointestinal Tract Of Broiler Chickens. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 74(4): 279-292 (2005).
• Dumonceaux, T.J., Hill, J.E., Briggs, S.A., Amoakoa, K.K., Hemingsen, S.M., Van Kesse, A.G. Enumeration Of Specific Bacterial Populations In Complex Intestinal Communities Using Quantitative PCR Based On The Chaperonin-60 Target. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 64(1): 46-62 (2006).