High-pressure mechanical lysis with standard and mini-cell choices.
Standard cell reference: 35 mL / 40 kpsi; confirm working loading
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High-pressure mechanical lysis with standard and mini-cell choices.
Standard cell reference: 35 mL / 40 kpsi; confirm working loading
Bead beating with compatible reaction-vial adapters; other jar and tube formats need configuration review.
Vial count depends on the selected adapter
Parallel biological preparations with compatible vial adapters; count depends on the vessel format.
Vial count depends on the selected adapter
A compact bead mill for individual biological samples in sealed screw-cap microvials, with digital timing and a brushless motor.
Sample capacity: 10-400 mg wet weight · Vial format: One 2 mL screw-cap microvial
A compact 16-position bead mill for microbial cells and plant or animal tissue, with digital timing and a quiet ULTRA enclosure.
Vial positions: Up to 16 × 2 mL screw-cap microvials · Speed: 3,450 rpm
A 24-position bead mill for biological sample disruption, with variable speed, runtime cycling and a quiet ULTRA enclosure.
Vial positions: Up to 24 × 2 mL screw-cap microvials · Speed: 2,400-3,800 rpm
A high-capacity bead mill for parallel disruption of biological samples in deep-well plates, microvials or larger tubes.
Plate capacity: One 2 mL deep-well plate or two 1 mL deep-well plates · Tube formats: 45 microvials; optional holders for twenty 7 mL or two 50 mL tubes
A chamber-style bead mill for disrupting aqueous suspensions of yeast, fungi and bacteria for protein, enzyme and organelle recovery.
Chamber volume: 350 mL total; 200 mL working · Motor: 3/8 hp, single speed
A stainless steel mortar and pestle system for fragmenting hard-frozen tissue before extraction or further homogenization.
Single-sample options: 10–100 mg, 0.1–1 g or 1–10 g · 12-well option: 10–100 mg per well
An insulated stainless steel mortar for grinding frozen tissue while retaining low sample temperatures.
Tissue capacity: 100 mg to 10 g · Insulated mortar for manual grinding of frozen tissue
A mechanical clamp for compressing and rapidly freezing fresh tissue into a thin wafer for subsequent sample preparation.
Fresh tissue in a poly-bag · Liquid-nitrogen-cooled compression clamp
A digitally controlled rotor-stator homogenizer for soft tissue, emulsification and liquid sample preparation across a broad range of volumes.
1–1,000 mL, probe dependent · 8,000–35,000 rpm
A hand-operated stainless steel screw press for small soft-tissue samples and undiluted extracts for downstream analysis.
Manual screw press with a 250 µm screen · Disposable sample liners
Automatic nitrogen cooling for suitable difficult biological or elastic samples.
Confirm jar, adapter and downstream assay compatibility
Compact manual sonication for routine small-volume cell disruption.
55 W; up to 50 mL · Thumb-switch or continuous output; standard 1/8 in probe
Programmable small-volume sonication with pulse mode and digital energy monitoring.
125 W; up to 50 mL · 20-100% amplitude; timer up to 10 hours
Laboratory probe sonication for cell lysis, homogenization and dispersion.
500 W; up to 1 L · 20-100% amplitude; programmable timing and pulses
Touchscreen sonication with full-range amplitude control and stored program sequences.
700 W; up to 2 L for low-viscosity liquids · 1-100% amplitude; 10 stored programs; sequences of up to 5
Industrial ultrasonic processing for larger batches, including cell lysis, with direct-probe or flow-cell configurations.
2,000 W; approximate system range 5-20 L · Programmable timing, pulses and optional temperature monitoring
High-power industrial ultrasonic processing for application-dependent large batches.
2,500 W; approximate range 5-20 L · High-intensity probe and booster; optional temperature monitoring
Dedicated cooled system for chromatin and DNA shearing in sealed sample tubes.
750 W; 50 µL to 1 mL per tube · Up to 18 tubes, rack dependent; 150 bp to 3 kb DNA fragment range · Chiller, rotating sample system and sound enclosure included
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HIGH-PRESSURE CELL DISRUPTION
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Cryogenic tissue pulverizer
A stainless steel mortar and pestle system for fragmenting hard-frozen tissue before extraction or further homogenization.
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Cryogenic mortar and pestle
An insulated stainless steel mortar for grinding frozen tissue while retaining low sample temperatures.
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Cryogenic tissue clamp
A mechanical clamp for compressing and rapidly freezing fresh tissue into a thin wafer for subsequent sample preparation.
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High-throughput bead mill
A high-capacity bead mill for parallel disruption of biological samples in deep-well plates, microvials or larger tubes.
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Variable-speed bead mill
A 24-position bead mill for biological sample disruption, with variable speed, runtime cycling and a quiet ULTRA enclosure.
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Parallel-sample bead mill
A compact 16-position bead mill for microbial cells and plant or animal tissue, with digital timing and a quiet ULTRA enclosure.
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Rotor-stator homogenizer
A digitally controlled rotor-stator homogenizer for soft tissue, emulsification and liquid sample preparation across a broad range of volumes.
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Single-sample bead mill
A compact bead mill for individual biological samples in sealed screw-cap microvials, with digital timing and a brushless motor.
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Batch microbial cell disruptor
A chamber-style bead mill for disrupting aqueous suspensions of yeast, fungi and bacteria for protein, enzyme and organelle recovery.
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Manual tissue macerator
A hand-operated stainless steel screw press for small soft-tissue samples and undiluted extracts for downstream analysis.
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Small-sample bead beating
A versatile mixer mill for small biological samples, with compatible reaction-vial adapters for bead beating and cell disruption.
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