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Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
English - November 25, 2013 14:00 - 1.3 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsNatural Sciences Science global challenges chemistry solutions chem science climate change water education high school acs american chemical society Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first time, individual viruses. Their study on the light-weight device, which converts the phone into a powerful mini-microscope, appears in the journal ACS Nano.