Smartphone Microscope

With smartphone cameras now having super pixel capacity that was hardly imaginable more than a year or two ago, researchers at UCLA have developed an attachable, compact microscope for smartphones that can detect fluorescently labeled pathogens—bacteria and viruses—at the nano level.  This suggests that the squeeze in public health may be less in microscope technology than in physicians who can read the observable pathology. MORE

Image Credit:   Geek and UCLA