April 15, 2009 The CellScope is a revolutionary attachment that turns a standard camera-enabled cell phone into a clinical quality microscope, with magnification up to 50X. Health workers in ...

Smartphone cameras can do so much more than capture selfies. They can detect everything from an ear infection to cervical cancer. mHealth has been fixated on SMS-based applications. Using texts, ...

Finnish researchers have developed a low-cost, easily transported mobile microscope. The device is currently being tested in Tanzania, and further tests will soon be conducted in Finnish hospitals.

Alumni of IIT-Bombay have developed a portable microscope, which can benefit those living in remote areas where the diagnostic facilities are poor, said scientists. The microscope is smaller than the ...

Humankind is not depending on me to cure some terrible epidemic. That takes the pressure off and lets me have a little fun as I try a device that turns my iPhone into a fairly powerful microscope.