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50-cent Paper Microscope Can Detect Diseases
50-cent Paper Microscope Can Detect Diseases
   The Foldscope, an origami-like microscope, is the size of a bookmark, virtually indestructible and costs only $0.50 to produce Its creator, Manu Prakash, assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, hopes such a Microscope will allow for easier and more wider detection of blood-borne Diseases like malaria, African sleeping sickness, schistosomiasis and Chagas. Each kind of Foldscope is for a specific disease, with 12 in total See also: Turn Your Smartphone Into a Microscope With Single Lens “I wanted to make the best possible disease-detection instrument that we could almost distribute for free,” said Prakash to Scope, a medical blog run by the Stanford University School of Medicine. “What came out of this project is what we call use-and-throw microscopy.” Read more... More about Stanford, Malaria, Dev Design, Gadgets, and Us World المصدر: Forums 50-cent Paper Microscope Can Detect Diseases 
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