A plastic, miniature digital fluorescence microscope has been developed that can quantify white blood cell levels in patients located in rural parts of the world that are far removed from the modern ...

Researchers announced Monday that they have created a powerful but cheap microscope that could help diagnose diseases, including AIDS and cancer in impoverished regions across the globe. Funded by the ...

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is pushing its mobile phone microscope tech -- based on 3-D printing and inexpensive glass beads -- out to the public. A national research laboratory has ...

As researchers zero in on low-cost diagnostics for developing countries, a team of scientists at Rice University nabbed funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a miniature plastic ...

WASHINGTON -- You can learn a lot about the state of someone's immune system just by examining their blood under the microscope. An abnormally high or low white blood count, for instance, might ...