Tungsten Carbide Beads, 3mm (200)

QIAGEN provides 3 mm tungsten carbide beads for sample disruption with TissueLyser systems. High-speed shaking of sample material with a single bead in a Collection Microtube or 2 ml microcentrifuge tube for a few minutes allows rapid and efficient disruption of the sample. Guidelines for use are provided in the handbook supplied with the TissueLyser instrument. For easy dispensing of beads into tubes, TissueLyser Bead Dispensers are available. Please note that tungsten carbide beads react with lysis buffers such as buffer RLT, RLT Plus, and QIAzol lysis reagent used in QIAGEN's RNA extraction kits, so they are not recommended for use with those kits.