Sekisui Chemical, Two Others Develop Centrifugation-free Vacuum Blood Drawing Tube

Sekisui Chemical, Nitto Boseki, and I-DESIGN have jointly developed Tube 21-S, a plastic vacuum blood drawing tube.


Scheduled to be released in August by Nitto Boseki, the product is the world's first blood drawing tube that has required no centrifugation.


Incorporating a specially developed hemocyte percolating filter, the tube can drastically reduce the time required for blood drawing and testing from 15-40 minutes to only 2 minutes.


Nitto Boseki expects the product to generate sales of 600 million yen ($5.2 mil) in 2008.



By Aki Tsukioka, JCN Staff Writer


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