News for Sample preparation homogenizers

Bertin Instruments will attend PITTCON Conference & Expo 2017, the world’s leading annual conference and exhibition on laboratory science to showcase its new InCellis Cell Imager and Precellys tissue homogenizers at the McCormick Place (West Hall), booth #938, from 5 to 9 March. About InCellis Cell Imager: Cell biologists need to generate cell images in […]

With more than several thousand publications in under two years, CRISPR-Cas9 revolutionized the science world and more particularly cellular and molecular biology. CRISPR-Cas9 technology allows genetic editing through mutation. For example, this leads to the generation of Knock-In or Knock-Out mice for animal studies [1]. Introducing mutation requires some controls to check the validity and […]

Bertin Instruments will be attending SfN’s 46th annual meeting, Booth #3226, the premier venue for neuroscientists to present emerging science, to showcase its new InCellis and its Precellys range of products at the San Diego Convention Center, from 12 to 16 November. About InCellis: Cell biologists need to generate cell images in living conditions with […]

Precellys Evolution is now capable of handling 96 well-plates (300µL per well). New accessories were recently released to significantly increase the throughput of our state-of-the-art sample preparation equipment. In order to offer the best experience and significantly decrease the time of preparation, new pre-filled breakable 96 well-plates are also available. Since the quantity of samples […]

Microbes such as yeast or bacteria are difficult to lyse due to their thick cell wall, which makes nucleic acid extraction difficult. The most common technique for microbial extraction is the use of chemical lysis reagents followed by physical grinding with mortar and pestle in liquid nitrogen. The Precellys homogenizers offer an alternative and more […]

Zika virus disease is caused by a virus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Local transmission has been reported in many countries and territories, especially in South America. Zika virus can be spread by a pregnant woman to her fetus. It […]

This research focuses on immune response during lung inflammation and/or infection in vivo. This requires isolating viable cells from lungs and characterizing the immune cell populations by flow cytometry. Our standard protocol for isolating viable cells from lung tissue involves creating a single cell suspension by passing the tissue through a 70 µm cell sieve, […]

The Precellys Evolution has been set up in a BSL-4 research laboratory for the recovery of viable single cell suspensions from non-human primate samples. The Precellys equipment, initially developed for meeting BSL-3 lab requirements, has been installed in Leidos Biomedical Research laboratory, one of four BSL-4 laboratories operational in the US, for the AIDS and […]