From Cell Disruption to Sample Homogenization
All types of biological samples have to be prepared for research in metabolomics, genomics, or transcriptomics, regardless of whether they are tough and fibrous plants, hard bones, soft muscles or tissue, or tough and viscous sputum. In addition, there are millions of cell-like bacteria, yeast, or algae, which have to be disrupted for applications such as protein extraction or RNA or DNA isolation.
In this free white paper RETSCH describes the various techniques to obtain representative analysis samples or carry out successful cell disruption via bead beating.