Using a smartphone to capture a microscopic image. Some phones have a built-in microscope lens but still cannot achieve the 400x, 800x and 1000x of a regular microscope lens. Smartphone microscopes ...

Researchers developed a smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that can capture, reconstruct and display holograms in almost real time. They used the microscope to acquire cross-sectional ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites — by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight ...

Researchers at California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Stockholm University and Uppsala University are working on a smartphone-based microscope in hopes of developing a cost-effective and accessible ...

With just a glass bead and plastic clip, a smartphone can become a microscope. That transformation enables hands-on learning experiences, which are especially vital during a time when many students ...

The modern microscope is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to detecting disease, but typically the biological material being studied needs to be stained or dyed to reveal its secrets. This can ...

Smartphones are notorious for their poor camera quality. So it comes as a slight surprise that smartphones' photography capabilities are being utilized to study viruses. Dr. Aydogan Ozcan of UCLA and ...

Researchers have developed a 'self-driving' microscope that can predict the onset of misfolded protein aggregation - a hallmark of neurodegenerative disease - as well as analyze the biomechanical ...

Launched via Kickstarter this week the smartphone microscope is available from C$29 or £18 and worldwide shipping will take place during May 2020. Its developers explain a little more about its ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes. The UArizona ...

One of the highlights of science classes in school had to when we got to toy around with microscopes. Of course, while most microscopes in school were fairly basic models, the kits used in ...