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 ...

The little picture: Microscopes are cool. There is something fascinating about looking at objects that you cannot normally see with your naked eye. Of course, carrying a microscope around for whenever ...

A new portable smartphone attachment that can be utilized to effectively screen for cancer is the result of a joint effort between researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, Sweden’s ...

For less than $50, your physicians could have a microscope attachment on their smartphones, according to the latest research from University of California-Davis. Researchers used a ball lens just 1 ...

Electrical and bioengineer Aydogan Ozcan of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues have developed a smartphone attachment that can estimate the lengths of DNA molecules in a ...

Contemporary cellular phones can perform a seemingly endless variety of functions, from taking photographs and videos to guiding people through rush hour traffic. You may not even be aware of this, ...

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 ...

A smartphone app can detect signs of norovirus, the most common cause of gastroenteritis. Jeong-Yeol Yoon and his colleagues at the University of Arizona in the US built the system using a microscope ...

The smartphone-based device can detect tiny amounts of norovirus in water. A blue LED irradiates the microfluidic chip from the side, while a smartphone with a microscope attachment captures the ...