Detecting E. coli with a Smart Phone
May 22, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
By designing a miniature florescent microscope that can affix to a smart phone, over its camera, engineers at UCLA have built a device that detects E. coli in a liquid sample. Not only was the device sensitive, it was specific—i.e. it could detect E. coli even when mixed with other pathogens. MORE
Image Credit: Hongying Zhu , Uzair Sikora and Aydogan Ozcan