The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA 88) remains the most sweeping federal law affecting the laboratory industry. Its purpose is to safeguard the “accuracy, reliability, and ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost, origami-inspired microscope called the Foldscope. The device costs just pennies to produce and can provide up to 2,000x magnification. Scientists and educators ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites — by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight ...

You can download the recipe for the OpenFlexure microscope from GitHub, feed it into a 3D printer and, combined with a little camera and computer, you have a way to ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes. The UArizona ...

If fieldwork be your folly, then specimens be your burden. Hiking, stooping, bottling, bagging, cataloging, and then lugging back to the laboratory is a time honored tradition dating back to the ...

The early research involving manipulation and nano-mechanical testing of individual nanostructures was demonstrated by use of atomic force microscope (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscope (STM) ...

A researcher in the UK has developed a high-tech microscope that can make expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper. Adam ...