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 ...

Kids are already over fidget spinners after adults rapidly made them uncool, but a team of scientists in Taiwan has found a nifty way to repurpose these small toys. They turned them into inexpensive ...

Fidget spinners can generate enough force to separate blood plasma with the flick of a finger, reveals a new study. Blood plasma can be separated easily not only with a centrifuge but also with a ...

Experience the J6-MI centrifuge solution uniquely designed to achieve key separations in volumes up to 6 Liters. Enjoy maintenance free operations due to the rugged, brushless induction drive which ...

Isolation of viable mononuclear and polymorphonuclear cells from blood serves as the starting point for a wide spectrum of immunology and cell biology studies. Unlike red blood cells and platelets, ...

A physicist in the US has proposed a new way to separate red and white blood cells using a magnetic field. The method, which has not yet been proven in the laboratory, exploits the fact that white and ...

Like test tubes and Bunsen burners, the centrifuge is a standard piece of equipment in scientific and medical labs the world over. But what happens when there’s no lab to speak of? In developing and ...