WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers developed a €350 smartphone-based microscope that can detect individual molecules. This brings super-resolution, research-grade ...

If the smartphone microscope is produced in large quantities, it could cost less than $500 per device, the researchers estimate, which is far less than the $10,000 for a typical microscope with ...

Researchers developed a smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that can capture, reconstruct and display holograms in almost real time. They used the microscope to acquire cross-sectional ...

Six years on from the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has unveiled its latest: the iMicro Q3p, a fingertip-sized, lightweight device that makes microscopy inexpensive, portable and ...

As an iPhone photographer I enjoy the using the Apple Camera apps’s Macro option to capture close-ups of a wide range of subjects. Regardless of which lens I choose my iPhone will automatically switch ...

This fingertip-size microscope—which weighs a half-gram (0.02 oz.) and easily attaches to any smartphone camera lens with a nano suction pad—magnifies small objects up to 200 times. According to ...