LyoDose™ Beads
Why lyophilized beads are better than powders
Life Sciences | Combination and Drug Product Manufacturing | Lyophilization
With multiple benefits including cost savings and reduced environmental impact, it is no wonder that companies are moving toward lyophilized beads in their product lineup. Bead-format lyophilization has significant advantages over traditional lyophilized powders:
Their small size gives lyophilized beads a high surface-area-to-volume ratio, so they reconstitute rapidly.
Bead formats require no aliquoting and no freeze-thaw cycles after reconstitution, protecting against batch variation and product degradation.
LyoDose beads eliminate pipetting steps and simplify protocols
The unit dose format allows you to eliminate pipetting steps in your protocol and replace them with a lyophilized bead. Instead of having your end user pipette small volumes of sensitive reagents into the reaction tube, simply prepackage an all-in-one bead directly in the tube and add water. PCR strip tubes are one of the most popular packaging formats for LyoDose beads.
For applications with multiple reagents that cannot be pre-mixed in a single bead, consider multiple beads each with a unique color. LyoDose beads use inert dyes that do not interfere with downstream assays such as qPCR. Additionally, dyes allow your end user to easily identify which reagents they have already added. Quality control can also benefit from the ease of inspecting for a specific color and number of beads.
Use colored LyoDose beads to improve user experience
Reduced pipetting steps and easy reagent identification both serve to simplify protocols for your end user. With fewer opportunities for mistakes, you will see improved user success and a reduction in costly product replacements and service calls.
While Aluris offers other excellent lyophilization formats including vials and bulk powders, many teams find LyoDose beads are the best solution for their products. With so many benefits to offer, now is the time to convert to LyoDose beads.
Contact us to learn more about the benefits of lyophilization beads for your product.