Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations

Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations

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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
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vor 3 Monaten
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.
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