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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A blood centrifuge rotates between 3,000 and 5,000 times per minute, causing blood to separate into three distinct layers: dark and dense red blood cells at the bottom, a very thin layer of white ...

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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 ...

In the developing world, transfusions can mean the difference between life and death. But the supplies and machines are costly. This device lets you recycle a person’s own blood, for cheap. If you’re ...

Peter Luttenberger has denied claims from an anonymous source that he used a blood centrifuge to check his blood values. The Austrian said that he did not work with the team doctor Geert Leinders, who ...