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 ...

If the smartphone microscope is produced in large quantities, it could cost less than $500 per device, the researchers estimate, which is far less than the $10,000 for a typical microscope with ...

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 ...

Add one more thing to the list of tasks your smartphone can perform. University of Houston researchers have released an open-source dataset offering instructions to people interested in building their ...

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 ...

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

If you've ever woken up in a cold sweat with the gnawing certainty that your blood is infected by rare tropical parasites -- and which of us hasn't -- then it will come as welcome news that a cure may ...

You can transform your smart phone camera into a powerful microscope, enabling you to explore the hidden wonders of the world at any time. With the PhoneMicro5 portable phone microscope is designed to ...

President John Phillips presents a check to Ryan Taylor at Worley Middle School for the Smart MicroScopes that allow students to see things enlarged with variable magnification. Methodist Mansfield ...

The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain is central to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But to the human eye, proteins that are ...