A benchtop centrifuge often becomes the best option when a lab has outgrown compact equipment but still does not want the size or footprint of a floor-standing unit. 

A refrigerated centrifuge becomes important when sample temperature can no longer be treated as a minor detail. 

A micro centrifuge is one of those lab tools that often looks simple until the workflow becomes more demanding. 

Two blood tubes may be collected the same way but still produce very different results if one is processed at the wrong time.