How to Choose a Centrifuge
Centrifuges are sample-handling instruments that use centrifugal force to separate substances of differing densities — most commonly blood components (plasma, serum, buffy coat), urine sediment, cell pellets, and nucleic acid preparations. Buyers range from physician office labs and ASCs (low-speed clinical units) to hospital core labs, blood banks, and research/biopharma facilities (refrigerated, high-speed, and ultracentrifuges). With relative centrifugal forces (RCFs) in the thousands, these instruments provide advanced processing capabilities for research facilities, clinical settings and industrial laboratories, and a benchtop centrifuge's precision, reliability and compact size are ideal for an extensive range of laboratory applications.