There are now various attachments that allow you to capture microscope-scale images with your smartphone. Unfortunately, however, the limitations of the phone's lens and image sensor mean that those ...

Engineer Manu Prakash helped develop a malaria-finding microscope that works in low-resource settings, improving access to sensitive infectious disease diagnostics.

For the first time, labs around the world can 3-D print their own precision microscopes to analyse samples and detect diseases, thanks to an open-source design created at the University of Bath. The ...

1) Microscope slides and coverglass are used in many parts of the lab while knowledge of how these items are made and the technical properties they have is limited. 2) By not understanding the ...

Effective stereo microscope selection depends on understanding application demands and the performance factors that affect 3D ...

An image of a blood smear taken using the smartphone microscope attachment (L) is run through the deep learning algorithm (C) to produce a result similar to that taken by a high-end lab microscope (R) ...

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The science of small just got a lot bigger at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the arrival of the world’s most powerful microscope. The new $27 million microscope has a resolution of half of ...

Germany’s Max Planck Society and the microscope maker Leica Microsystems have joined forces to commercialize a new technique to allow optical microscopes to look at even smaller objects than was ...

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis in 2008. It’s definitely a disease to be taken seriously, so when people in remote locations are being ...

Dr. Steven Finkbeiner's microscope is one of a kind. It occupies a small room -- the size of a large closet -- down a hallway humming with refrigerators, freezers and centrifuges at the new laboratory ...