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Hand-Spun Centrifuge PUBLISHED: 10 JANUARY 2017 | VOLUME: 1 | ARTICLE NUMBER: 0017 news & views DIAGNOSTICS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH Hand-spun centrifuge A 20 cent centrifuge made of paper and string and operated by hand can separate plasma from blood in about 90 seconds. Meaghan Bond and Rebecca Richards-Kortum he majority of the world’s population or absence of a target analyte — to rapidly from it because the large number of red lives in low-income countries, yet detect human immunodeficiency virus blood cells in whole blood interferes with Tmost medical technologies are (HIV) antibodies from a drop of whole the assays by restricting fluid flow, inhibiting designed to be used in the developed world, blood, thus enabling providers to refer the polymerase chain reaction or increasing where access to stable electrical power, patients for treatment more effectively and background fluorescence3. Yet conventional clean water, consumable supplies and to reduce loss to follow-up2. Such rapid HIV sample-preparation technologies, such as trained healthcare providers is taken for tests are so simple to implement that many centrifugation and filtration, are difficult granted1. Reducing global-health inequities low-income countries now train ‘expert to implement at the POC in low-resource thus requires a concerted effort to design patients’ to carry out POC HIV testing2. settings because of the high cost, large size, affordable and effective technologies that Yet designing assays that can be performed and power and maintenance requirements of can be used in resource-poor settings. When at the POC with a broad range of clinical the necessary equipment (Fig. 1a,b). available, low-cost tools to diagnose disease samples such as blood, stool, urine and Nevertheless, progress has been made in at the point of care (POC) can transform saliva remains a challenge. For example, the development of low-cost, highly sensitive healthcare; for example, healthcare centres assays to detect proteins, nucleic acids or assays that can be used at the POC. A case around the world use lateral-flow assays — even parasites in blood often require an in point is the use of paper, which can be simple devices for detecting the presence initial step to separate the plasma fraction cut, patterned with hydrophobic barriers or a b c d e f Haematocrit 1.0 acheived . 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 action of RBCs in blood r F 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 Time (min) Figure 1 | Centrifuges for use in low-resource settings. a, Hand-crank centrifuge and microscope in a laboratory of a health centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo1. b, Commercial centrifuge powered by a rechargeable laptop battery being used in Haiti. c, Salad-spinner centrifuge in use in Malawi. d, Hand-powered paper-and-string centrifuge8. e, Sealed straws allow the paper-and-string centrifuge to carry capillaries filled with whole blood.f , Fraction of red blood cells (RBCs) in blood, as a function of spinning time, separated by a 10-cm-diameter paper-and-string centrifuge. Stable haematocrit values are reached after about 90 seconds. Error bars represent the standard deviation of eight experiments carried out by two users. Figure reproduced with permission from: a, ref. 1, AAAS; d–f, ref. 8, Nature Publishing Group. NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 1, 0017 (2017) | DOI: 10.1038/s41551-016-0017 | www.nature.com/natbiomedeng 1 ©2017 Mac millan Publishers Li mited, part of Spri nger Nature. All ri ghts reserved. news & views folded to form two- and three-dimensional Power for the paper-and-string centrifuge step towards bringing the separation structures that direct fluid flow past regions is supplied by the hands and dissipated by capability of clinical laboratory centrifuges containing the pre-dried reagents needed air drag and in the strings. Each of these to the POC. The authors demonstrated the to carry out multistep assays to detect a components dominates the torque applied use of the centrifuge to carry out simple variety of analytes with clinically relevant to the disc at different phases during the diagnostics through the wall of sealed sensitivity4. And commercially available spinning cycle: torque resulting from the capillary tubes by viewing the haematocrit blood-separation membranes using input force during the unwinding phase, level or examining the blood for parasites filtration aided by capillary force have been from air drag as the string is winding and using microscopy. Many other diagnostics, integrated with paper-based POC assays5. from the supercoiled string at the end however, require safe transfer of plasma Paper and traditional microfluidic devices of the winding phase9. The maximum from the capillary tube to a paper or are however most appropriate for use with rotational speed of the centrifuge was plastic device for subsequent analysis. small sample volumes and are difficult to measured across a range of disc diameters And unlike many recent developments adapt for the large volumes that are often and cycle frequencies. With a disc 10 mm in paper microfluidics4,10,11, the paper needed to achieve higher sensitivity or to in diameter, rotational speeds of up to in the authors’ centrifuge is used as a process complex clinical samples. For this, 125,000 revolutions per minute (30,000g) structural support for blood contained in cheap household items such as egg beaters6 could be achieved. By using a mathematical a traditional capillary tube, rather than for and salad spinners7 (Fig. 1c) have been model of the centrifuge, Prakash and containing or directing fluid flow. Also, adapted to make hand-powered mechanical co-authors designed the paper-and-string assay designers will need to consider how centrifuges capable of separating plasma centrifuge so that it would yield a centrifugal to ensure that users correctly operate from whole blood. However, these devices force of ~10,000g and could be used to the device; for example, will operators generate relatively low centrifugal forces separate blood cells from plasma. For this, reliably spin all blood samples for a full (equivalent to ~30–300g, where g is the two drinking straws (to hold sealed capillary 90 seconds? Underspinning samples would acceleration due to gravity) compared with a tubes) were taped to a 10-cm-diameter lead to an overestimation of haematocrit. typical bench-top laboratory centrifuge used paper disc, with the outer edge of each straw User safety during the high-speed rotation to measure haematocrit (~5,000g; ref. 7). sealed shut. A second paper disc was secured of potentially infectious fluids should be Inspired by an ancient whirligig (a buzzer in place over the straws using Velcro tabs. guaranteed. Yet, these considerations should toy), Manu Prakash and colleagues now The authors show that in eight trials with not prevent the successful integration of describe in Nature Biomedical Engineering two operators, variation in the red-blood- Prakash and co-authors’ centrifuge into the a 20 cent, hand-powered centrifuge that is cell fraction of the centrifuged samples was clinical workflow of more complex assays. capable of achieving centrifugal forces as small at the 1.5 minutes time point (Fig. 1f), Beyond its obvious clinical applications in high as 30,000g (ref. 8). resulting in haematocrit values that were in the developing world, the paper-and-string Prakash and co-authors’ whirligig is made good agreement with those obtained using centrifuge is poised to become an ingenious from a disc with two holes on either side of a US$700 commercial centrifuge. They also tool for science education. ❐ its centre of gravity and a piece of string8. show that the plasma portions of the spun The string is passed through the holes and capillary tubes were free of cells. Notably, Meaghan Bond and Rebecca Richards-Kortum then held by hand at either end. When the centrifuge was also used to separate are in the Department of Bioengineering, the string is initially wound up, tension the buffy coat — the blood fraction that Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, applied by pulling at both ends causes the contains white blood cells and platelets — in Texas 77005, USA. string to unwind and the disc to spin; when 15 minutes. By using a standard quantitative e-mail: [email protected] the tension is then released, the inertia of buffy-coat test, malaria and other infectious the disc causes the string to rewind in the diseases can be diagnosed by checking for References opposite direction, drawing the hands back the parasites via fluorescence microscopy. 1. Richards-Kortum, R. & Oden, M. Science 342, 1055–1057 (2013). 2. Reid, S. D., Fidler, S. J. & Cooke, G. S. J. Clin. Epidemiol. together. If one successively applies and Moreover, the authors show that a wide 5, 387–396 (2013). releases tension at an appropriate rhythm, the variety of materials can be adapted to 3. Cui, F., Rhee, M., Singh, A. & Tripathi, A. Annu. Rev. Biomed. process of winding and unwinding continues, the whirligig format. In particular, they Eng. 17, 267–286 (2015). 4. Martinez, A. W., Phillips, S. T. & Whitesides, G. M. Anal. Chem. producing a characteristic buzzing sound. demonstrate centrifugation by using plastic 82, 3–10 (2010). The authors adapted the whirligig to serve as discs made with a desktop 3D printer 5. Tang, R. H. et al. Crit. Rev. Biotech. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/073 a low-cost centrifuge (Fig. 1d,e), optimizing and the generation of centrifugal force 88551.2016.1164664 (2016). it for high-speed operation by using two in traditional lab-on-a-chip microfluidic 6. Wong, A. P., Gupta, M., Shevkoplyas, S. S. & Whitesides, G. M. Lab Chip 8, 2032–2037 (2008). paper discs, fishing line and wooden handles. systems and in microfluidic structures 7.
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