Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer by Bertin Instruments

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Minilys is a flexible and personal homogenizer for cell/sample disruption for daily lab workflow. Minilys is a small and compact homogenizer for fast hands-free disruption of a wide range of biological samples (prior to DNA, RNA, proteins or drug extraction) at a low throughput level. Flexible (0.5ml, 2ml, 7ml lysing tubes) and easy to handle, it is the only small homogenizer that works in 3D motion, following standard protocols and providing more homogeneous results. Moreover, Minilys is extre... Read more

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Average Rating: 4.6

12 Scientists have reviewed this product

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Annelies Heylen
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2021
Organization: University of Antwerp

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

Excellent compact device for small batch sample processing!

Rating: 5.0

Application Area: To analyze monoamines and metabolites in brain tissue

"I find this homogenizer very user-friendly, it has three stands for 3000 to 5000 rpm which you can easily switch between. The time settings are very easy to adjust as well. It's a small, compact device that fits easily in between other devices on the bench. I wouldn't recommend to use it for high-throughput sample processing, as you can only homogenize up to three samples a time (in 2ml tubes). For small batches of samples, however, this is definitely an asset for your lab! Bertin has a set of protocols available on their website which you can help you to determine and experiment with the settings for your protocol (1x 60s, 3x 30s, depending on tissue types etc.). We haven't had to use after sales care yet, but we do have a good experience with the Bertin customer service and their recommendations."

Review date: 30 Jul 2021 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Pradyumna Kishor Mishra
Status:
Advanced Reviewer
Member since: 2020
Organization: Freelance Researcher and Teacher

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

3 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

Tremendous, useful and time saving instrument. I like it very much.

Rating: 4.3

Application Area:Separation of target tissue

"This is very effective tool in our laboratory as it is trouble free while extracting a sample targeted tissue for cytological or histological analysis."

Review date: 25 Jun 2021 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

HYOJUN KWON
Status:
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Member since: 2017
Organization: University of California San Diego

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

Good results, reduce homogenization processing time with improvement of surface

Rating: 5.0

Application Area:Nerve Tissue homogenize and following RNA work

"Overall of shape and function is reasonable. Tube and pestle shapes are perfect match. However, if the surface is not smooth, it might be helpful to grind nerve tissue"

Review date: 14 Dec 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

liang zhang
Status:
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Member since: 2017
Organization: NIH

Ease of use

4 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

4 out of 5

Good quality

Rating: 4.3

Application Area:Lyse the tissue to isolate the protein

"The homogenizer works pretty good. very easy to use and efficiency is very high"

Review date: 14 Dec 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Andrea Domenico Rivera
Status:
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Member since: 2017
Organization: University of Portsmouth

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

4 out of 5

Great tool to rapidly extract proteins from tissue samples.

Rating: 4.7

Application Area:Preparation of mouse tissue samples for Protein extraction

"Very easy to operate and a very small benchtop equipment. It takes a while to adapt current protocol to maximise extraction, however, guidelines for each tissue type are provided. Overall, it is a useful tool to have."

Review date: 14 Dec 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Justin S Antony
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2016
Organization: Translational Genomics and Gene therapy in Pediatrics

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

4 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

Excellent instruement

Rating: 4.7

Application Area:Isolation of biological samples from mouse organs

"Easy to use. The factor provided values makes it easy to optimize the protocol."

Review date: 14 Dec 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Jatin Nandania
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2017
Organization: University of Helsinki

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

4 out of 5

Value for money

4 out of 5

Very useful for our application.

Rating: 4.3

Application Area:Metabolomics

"This product is very effective and giving reproducible results. Easy to use and fast."

Review date: 14 Dec 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Ellen Pace
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2017
Organization: Cornell University

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

You will not be disappointed.

Rating: 5.0

Application Area:Analyze anticoagulants in tissue

"The purchase of the Minilys homogenizer has been a very worthwhile investment. The huge amount of time saved, and ease of use has made it an in invaluable piece of equipment for the lab."

Review date: 14 Dec 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Krishna Rao Maddipati
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2017
Organization: Wayne State University

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

Excellent, easy to use, highly efficient.

Rating: 5.0

Application Area:Lipidomics analyses

"We use Minilys on a regular basis to prepare homogenates for lipidomic analyses. It’s extremely convenient, easy to use and maintain."

Review date: 28 Jun 2017 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Tatiana Vyunova
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2015
Organization: Institute of Molecular Genetics Rus Academy of Sci

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

4 out of 5

Value for money

3 out of 5

Useful and very friendly machine

Rating: 4.0

Application Area:tissue homogenisation

"Very easy to use. It is possible to select type of homogenization, but volume of tubes is not too big. "

Review date: 15 Jan 2016 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

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Kyle Burghardt
Status:
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Member since: 2015
Organization: Wayne State University

Ease of use

5 out of 5

After sales service

5 out of 5

Value for money

5 out of 5

Perfect for working with tough to lyse samples and getting consistent results

Rating: 5.0

Application Area:Processing of human tissue for DNA/RNA extraction

"Machine is well worth the price for low-throughput applications. Much easier to work with compared to other homogenization strategies"

Review date: 17 Dec 2015 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Isabelle Marty
Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2015
Organization: Inserm U836

Ease of use

5 out of 5

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Value for money

4 out of 5

The Minilys allow us to performed new experiment that couldn't have been done before in our lab with our classical preparation of homogenates

Rating: 4.3

Application Area:Reproducible homogenization of muscle samples for quantitative western blot analysis

"We have planned to analyze a specific protein in mouse skeletal muscle to study the effect of a treatment. We had about 50 samples to analyze, and the protein is sensitive to proteolysis. Thanks to the MiniLys it has been possible to performed this experiment and to produce high quality homogenates, without degradation. We can have performed the quantitative analysis and show a nice kinetics of degradation of our protein due to the treatment of the mice and not to the processing of the samples! "

Review date: 16 Dec 2015 | Minilys - Personal Tissue Homogenizer

Minilys is a flexible and personal homogenizer for cell/sample disruption for daily lab workflow.

Minilys is a small and compact homogenizer for fast hands-free disruption of a wide range of biological samples (prior to DNA, RNA, proteins or drug extraction) at a low throughput level. Flexible (0.5ml, 2ml, 7ml lysing tubes) and easy to handle, it is the only small homogenizer that works in 3D motion, following standard protocols and providing more homogeneous results. Moreover, Minilys is extremely budget-friendly.

Minilys Tissue Homogenizer Features:

Efficient & rapid - Minilys offers the same bead-beating technology and extremely high quality as the Precellys homogenizer range, is the only small homogenizer on the market that disrupts samples using 3D motion and is by far the most efficient one.
Safe & easy-handling - Minilys ensures easy-handling and safe operations. Its innovative cut-out system automatically stops the operation if the lid is not firmly closed or is opened while running, thus providing additional safety guarantees for users.
Flexible & ready-to-use - Minilys accommodates a wide range of sample types from animal & plant tissue to microorganisms. With 3 different speeds ranging from 3000 to 5000 rpm, Minilys can handle either low-velocity agitation or harsh homogenization. Detachable tube-holders are adapted to three volumes of lysing tubes (0,5ml, 2ml or 7ml), providing the flexibility to vary your sample size and volume.

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