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Manu Prakash, the Meerut-born Stanford bioengineering professor known for designing inexpensive paper-based microscope called Foldscope, and his colleagues have designed a low-cost, electricity-free centrifuge which would make detection of Covid-19 infections in low-resource settings cheaper and faster.
The Stanford team, which included Ethan Li, Adam Larson and Anesta Kothari, all of whom work in Prakash’s lab, posted the details of the hand-powered centrifuge (so called Handyfuge) in MedRxiv, the preprint server for non-peer reviewed papers in health sciences, early this week.
