Hand-cranked device tells blood type and red cell levels in 1 minute

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-hand-cranked-device-blood-type-red.html

Summary: Engineers designed portable, electricity-free hand-cranked centrifugal diagnostic cassette determining blood type hemoglobin counts within sixty seconds using capillary microfluidics. Mechanical point-of-care blood testing device eliminates electrical power dependencies, providing remote field clinics emergency medical responders immediate robust hardware platform for rapid transfusion screening in low-resource disaster settings without requiring laboratory infrastructure.

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