And at a do-it-yourself cost of $250 to $500, it’s cheaper than many basic microscopes or other automated slide-analyzing devices. Prakash has spent his career building extremely cheap medical ...

UCLA's low-cost, lightweight, rugged microscope utilizes holograms instead of lenses (Image: Ozcan BioPhotonics Group at UCLA/Biomedical Optics Express) Besides being little, cheap and rugged ...

“The biggest thing we’re trying to do is to make people curious.” There are other such cheap microscopes, including some that can be fitted onto cellphones. But Prakash thinks such designs ...

There are, therefore, excellent reasons for developing a cheap, portable, battery-powered fluorescent microscope. This is exactly what researchers at Rice University describe in recent PloS One ...

To aid in this quest, they need a quality microscope to see what they’re doing. Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a cheap microscope and upgraded it to do the job instead.

Now researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have built a compact, light-weight, dual-mode microscope that uses holograms instead of lenses. The team describes the new ...

You can see the results and an explanation in the video below. You’d think you could use this to enhance a cheap microscope, but the truth is you need a high-quality microscope to start with.

A cool project to build a high-power digital microscope, using an iPhone and the focusing lens from a cheap laser pointer, recently showed up on the Instructables website. Ten minutes and twenty ...

We swore off microscopes after getting one for our 10th birthday and seeing just how disgusting our skin was, but this cheap USB microscope seems to be kinda neat. Carlosb.tv shows you that you ...

Researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland built a 3D-printed microscope in under three hours at a total cost of less than GBP 50 (around $60 at current exchange rates).

A cool project to build a high-power digital microscope, using an iPhone and the focusing lens from a cheap laser pointer, recently showed up on the Instructables website. Ten minutes and twenty ...