Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites -- by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight diseases in ...

Our Plugable USB 2.0 Digital Microscope review looks at a USB-powered microscope with 250x magnification and the ability to capture your findings easily.

On the Job Using a microscope to diagnose, cure disease By Cindy Atoji Keene Globe Correspondent,May 26, 2013, 12:00 a.m.

To understand how this is possible, it is important to have a simple grasp of how confocal microscopes operate. As with the conventional widefield microscope, confocals work using a series of mirrors, ...

Yang's tiny, dime-sized microscope combines microfluidic technology--nanoscale devices that handle very small volumes of fluids--with optical sensors to do the tasks traditional microscopes do ...

Scientists Use Microscope To View Magnetism At Atomic Level Date: November 8, 2002 Source: Ohio University Summary: Scientists and engineers build the transistors that run televisions, radios and ...

In the newest work, University of California, Berkeley, researchers used a smartphone-run video microscope to target a challenge in parts of Central Africa - some devastating infections caused by ...