[Yoshinok] recently posted an Instructable on doing a $10 smartphone-to-microscope conversion. The hack isn’t so much a conversion as just a handy jig, but it’s still interesting. The basic ...

iMicro Q3p is a fingertip-sized microscope lens Attaches to your smartphone camera for 1200x magnification It's now available to back on Kickstarter for as little as CA$55 Fitting a microscope in ...

Using a smartphone to capture a microscopic image. Some phones have a built-in microscope lens but still cannot achieve the 400x, 800x and 1000x of a regular microscope lens. Smartphone ...

The build difficulty level should be between the DIY Smartphone Microscope and the Laser Sequencer Super Microscope. In the end, if everything goes right, you will end up with some cool images: ...

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Ozcan (in his UCLA lab) started a company, Holomic, to market microscope-outfitted smartphones, which he calls “a telemedicine tool” for improving health care in the developing world.

As an iPhone photographer I enjoy the using the Apple Camera apps’s Macro option to capture close-ups of a wide range of ...

With the help of a smartphone microscope, UTHealth's Richard Jahan-Tigh, M.D., was able to detect non-melanoma skin cancer about 90 percent of the time. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!