Researchers turn cell phones into fluorescent microscopes
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 19:49
in Biology & Nature
Berkeley - 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.