This is a magnified image of a fertilized egg of Ascaris lumbricoides, the largest parasitic roundworm that invades the human intestine. These eggs are passed in stool from an infected host. THE ...

An Apple product may help keep the doctor away in Tanzania. In a discovery that provides doctors in remote areas with an alternative, scientists recently created a microscope using an iPhone, tape, ...

A mobile telephone transformed into a microscope yielded "only modest" accuracy and sensitivity but holds future promise when used to diagnose soil-transmitted helminths compared with traditional ...

The Apple iPhone can be used for lot of things – making calls, playing games and sending pictures, video and text. Scientists say it also can be converted into a low-cost microscope to detect ...

Scientists working in rural Tanzania have used a simple US$8 (Rs 435) glass lens, a strip of double-sided tape, and a cheap flashlight to convert an iPhone into a microscope that can successfully ...

Scientists working in rural Tanzania have used a simple US$8 glass lens, a strip of double-sided tape, and a cheap flashlight to convert an Apple iPhone into a field microscope that can successfully ...

Using a cheap stuck-on glass lens researchers convert the phones camera into a microscope capable of diagnosing intestinal worm infections that causes malnutrition in children. Scientists working in ...