Tokyo, July 19, 2006 (JCN) - 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.
