Mobile Microscope
http://www.vimeo.com/5843246
It started as a design challenge for UC Berkeley Bio-Engineering Professor Dan Fletcher’s class and now it’s known as CellScope– a microscope that fits onto a cell phone. Because it’s mobile and inexpensive to make, this microscope will be a very useful, life-saving tool in developing nations and remote areas.
It was described last week in PLoS ONE and has been making news ever since. The students at CalTV scooped everyone and ran the story last winter.
Impressive work from Berkeley students!
Update:
The researchers were just awarded a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the CellScope. The story can be found here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thebusinessofgiving/2010102384_add_two_new_weapons_to.html
Comment by Molly — October 23, 2009 @ 12:58 pm