FastPrep-24™ Classic Instrument by MP Biomedicals

"This is a great product that never let me down in 5 years of use; not day-to-day use though. It looks reproducible enough for my samples: plants, algae and corals."

"In my lab, we have used this product to process plants, cells, and corals. It never lets me down, and I never use commercial matrices. I mostly use 0.5mm zirconium beads. Great machine but it can yield heat in samples."

"We have compared results from samples extracted with MP Biomedicals kits to other kits (both commercially available and 'in-house' methods), and MP Biomedicals products always prove to be superior. The ease of use with the Fast Prep system makes it the first choice among all researchers in our lab."

"Great piece of equipment. Even though we don’t use it for its intended purpose, the principle is the same. We have spent years using a ball mill homogenizer which creates a lot of heat and takes a long time to achieve preparations with a desired particle size. The Fastprep has reduced hours of ball milling and sonicating in water and ice to a couple of minutes. Plus with the CoolTeen adaptor we can keep preparations cold or practically frozen. The classic model is simple to use and the ability to save a method to use over and over again saves a lot of time. Customer services were great with sorting us out with all the right sized vials minus the beads as we add our own later in the production of our preparations. After a number of years certain highly used parts were starting to wear and we were able to get replacements quickly and at very good prices. "

"This is a very useful instrument. Unfortunately some parts of instrument are so fragile and materials used for construction are not resistant. As a result, often particular parts of machine are broken and need replacement. Replacements of pieces is very expensive."

"The instrument is probably the standard for nucleic acid extraction from environmental samples. Thus the effectiveness for nuc extraction is high. My major criticism is that the spokes wheel for holding the tubes could be of much better quality. We have had to order a second spare part already. The price for the spare part is extemely high."

"Great to break up yeast cells. Fast, reproducible results."

"very efficient method to lyse yeast cells."