20 cents worth of materials can help save a life. The same materials that can be used to make a paper version of a centrifuge are everyday items you can find around your house -- paper, string, and plastic. Who would've thought that you could use paper in such a life-saving way!
A Stanford bioengineer named Manu Prakash decided to analyze the spin of a toy he played with during his childhood in India -- A whirligig. The toy is quite simple in design and dates back thousands of years. It works by pulling on a string so it winds and unwinds a disc quickly one way and then back again. Prakash decided to apply the same design concept to what he calls, a Paperfuge. Just like the lab equipment, it’s named after, the Paperfuge can spin biological
A Stanford bioengineer named Manu Prakash decided to analyze the spin of a toy he played with during his childhood in India -- A whirligig. The toy is quite simple in design and dates back thousands of years. It works by pulling on a string so it winds and unwinds a disc quickly one way and then back again. Prakash decided to apply the same design concept to what he calls, a Paperfuge. Just like the lab equipment, it’s named after, the Paperfuge can spin biological