
United Scientific® Micro Pestle, PP by United Scientific is a double-ended polypropylene pestle with one end that fits 1.5 mL microcentrifuge tubes and another that fits 0.5 mL tubes. The pestles are autoclavable and sold in packs of 12. Molecular biology labs use them to resuspend bacterial cells and nucleic acid or protein precipitates and to grind small tissue samples in the tube.