Many of us have played with whirligigs as kids, but now these playthings made of buttons and twine are getting a new life as medical lab tools for the developing world. Bioengineers at Stanford ...

Tie together some twine, a sheet of paper, and a little bit of plastic and pull — you’ve got a toy whirligig. Or human-powered blood centrifuge. Scientists have created the new “paperfuge” — which ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Designed to maximize productivity for blood processing centers, new Thermo Scientific blood banking centrifuges offer increased capacity that exceeds legacy centrifuge ...

IN the performance of blood grouping and cross-matching tests a source of inconvenience, and of possible error, is the operation of transferring the tubes in which the reactions are performed from ...

A simple innovation the size of a grain of sand means we can now analyse cells and tiny particles as if they were inside the human body. The new micro-device for fluid analysis will enable more ...

If you were a kid before the age of smartphones, you probably played with a whirligig at least once. The design for this simple toy, which will spin twine threaded through a button at rapid speeds ...

Manu Prakash was visiting a health clinic in Uganda when he noticed a centrifuge–an expensive piece of lab equipment–propping the door open. “They were using it as a doorstop, because of course it had ...

TAKE a cardboard disc and punch two holes in it, on either side of its centre. Thread a piece of string through each hole. Now, pull on each end of the strings and the disc will spin frenetically in ...

Micro-device to enable tailored experiments in drug development and disease research via new 'organ-on-chip' systems. A simple innovation the size of a grain of sand means we can now analyse cells and ...