title: A practical home-made microcentrifuge for teaching purposes.
abstract: We report a practical home-made microcentrifuge to be used for teaching purposes. It was made using a salad spinner and two polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tubes racks. It can accommodate 2 standard size 96-well plates or 24 strips or up to 192 microfuge tube. The centrifuge is hand-operated and is ideal for short spin down purposes.
authors.affiliation: Del Departamento de Bioquímica, Genética e Inmunología, Facultad de Biología, Campus de Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain. paloma@uvigo.es
authors.forename: Paloma
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Morán
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Galindo
mesh_terms: D002498:Centrifugation; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching