WE are conducting experiments to measure the rate of permeation of glycerol through the red blood cell membrane. The procedure involves mixing glycerol solutions with red blood cells and letting them ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...