Researchers turn cell phones into fluorescent microscopes
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 04:29
in Biology & Nature
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are proving that a camera phone can capture far more than photos of people or pets at play. They have now developed a cell phone microscope, or CellScope, that not only takes color images of malaria parasites, but of tuberculosis bacteria labeled with fluorescent markers.