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 ...

Some people use fidget spinners -- flat, multi-lobed toys with a ball bearing at the center -- to diffuse nervous energy or whirl away stress. Now, researchers have found a surprising use for the toys ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Scientists at Monash University in Australia have developed a process for rapidly and efficiently separating blood plasma at the microscopic level without any moving parts, potentially allowing ...

Celebrating a 75-year legacy in centrifugation, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences launches its most versatile 3-liter benchtop centrifuge yet – the Allegra V-15R refrigerated centrifuge. Featuring 10 ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the BD Vacutainer Barricor plasma blood collection tube. is a single-use plastic tube that relies on new separation technology to extract plasma from ...

The Government Wenlock Hospital here no longer depends on other blood banks in the city to separate platelets, red blood cells and plasma from the whole blood. It has upgraded its blood component ...