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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 ...

A human-powered centrifuge made of paper can generate centrifugal forces of 30,000 g and separate blood into its component parts in less than two minutes. Created by a team of biophysicists and ...

Stanford researchers took inspiration from a whirligig, a child's toy that has been around since ancient times, and developed a low-cost, hand-powered centrifuge that will enable prompt diagnosis and ...