Bead dispensing articles and guides
Practical articles on bead dispensing, bead beating and DNA extraction.
- Protecting RNA integrity during homogenizationBead beating is often blamed for degraded RNA. The evidence points elsewhere: the beads are rarely the problem, the heat and the RNases are.
- Bead milling for tissue proteomics: what the recent comparisons showWhere bead milling wins in tissue proteomics, where acoustic methods have taken over, and how to report the step so it is reproducible.
- How bead-beating intensity shapes your microbiome resultsLysis intensity is not a neutral setting. Published comparisons show it changes which taxa you recover, which means it changes your conclusions.
- Consistent bead beating starts with how you load the beads
Uneven bead loading is a hidden source of variation in DNA and RNA extraction. A manual bead dispenser loads a full plate of grinding beads in one move.