Diagenode has provided a Bioruptor® Pico demo instrument to us for 2 weeks in September. We were getting very reproducible results between different tubes in the same sonication as well as between replicate experiments. We have obtained considerably improved results especially for cross-linked chromatin from mammalian cells that has always been a problem for us with the old Bioruptor. A bonus also was a reduced sonication time, although the preparation time is slightly delayed due to the glutinous nature of the beads.
Dr. Tatyana Nesterova, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford