As UCLA researchers test a low-cost, lens-free microscope, a team of scientists at nearby California Institute of Technology have developed a similar device from a $1.50 digital camera sensor that can ...

It is a twist on cell phone use that excites assistant professor Wei-Chuan Shih and doctoral candidate Yulung Sung. They call it DotLens, a discovery made by mistake. Last year, Sung dropped polymer ...

Using a smartphone to capture a microscopic image. Some phones have a built-in microscope lens but still cannot achieve the 400x, 800x and 1000x of a regular microscope lens. Smartphone microscopes ...

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 ...

The project was carried out by researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Münster, who set out to improve access to high-resolution microscopes that are typically too expensive and fragile for ...

Professor Timo Betz is a biophysicist at the University of Göttingen in Germany. His name is found on widely cited research papers with serious-sounding titles like Neurite branch retraction is caused ...

Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) have developed a 3D-printable "clip-on" that turns a smartphone into a fully functional microscope. Reported ...