Monday, July 27, 2009

Turn Your Cell Phone Into A Medical Instrument

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.

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Thanks To Keith at BagOfNothing

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