Centrifuge: Camera

Without a camera, you only see the final result. With a camera, you watch the rate of separation. You can quantify how fast a red blood cell sediments or when a polymer reaches equilibrium. This is crucial for pharmaceutical stability testing.

There was a time when scientists accepted that centrifugation was a "black box." You put the sample in, pressed start, and hoped for the best. The centrifuge camera changes this. centrifuge camera