Mini Glass Beads are used to homogenize soft animal tissues, bacterial or yeast pellets, cell cultures or environmental samples, food, veterinary and forensic samples. Glass beads are washed with chlorine, rinsed with water and dried. Mini Glass beads are available in 50 g bottles for ease of use in 2 ml vials for beat beating technology, vortex, mortar and pestle or any other homogenization technique.

Fragmentation of the material is achieved in a process of shaking/vortexing of the tube with high speed. In most cases, homogenization is carried out in 350-1000 µl of suitable lysis solution.

Mini Glass Beads are perfect to use in beat beater homogenizers or vortex with adapters for eppendorf tubes. Glass beads submerged in lysis buffer enables the efficient extraction of nucleic acids and proteins from different samples: bacteria, fungi, soil, stool, tissues and food samples. Regular shape of the beads minimizes molecules degradation while rapid shaking. Beat beating with mini glass beads is very efficient in 250-1000 μl lysis buffer e.g. Lyse All, LG, Lyse T, Lyse C, Lyse S, Lyse BN, Lyse BG, GeDI. The admixture of Mini Glass Beads into mortar enables grinding the samples.