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Article: Doctor on call; Mobile-phone microscopes.(Medical uses for mobile phones)(cellscope)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 17, 2008
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Simple accessories could turn mobile phones into useful medical devices
ROBI MAAMARI stares intently at the screen of his mobile phone. The student is not squinting to tap out yet another daft text message, but looking carefully for the faint blue dots that are the tell-tale diagnostic signature of malaria.
Mr Maamari is a member of a research team led by Dan Fletcher, a professor of bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, which has developed a cheap attachment to turn the digital camera on many of today's mobile phones into a microscope. Called a CellScope, it can show individual white and red blood cells, which means that with the ...