Handheld blood separator


DLD part 2

Following the last blog post about deterministic lateral displacement (DLD), here we present a full-blood-separator, based on these principles.

Copyright – Life on a Chip / Dr. Axel Hochstetter

Above you see a design, specifically made to separate whole blood into white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, and serum – without clogging.

Above here you see a life-sized demonstrator, fitted for commercial microscopes


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