Researchers at Rice University in Houston designed a device to better analyze blood smears for disease diagnoses. 1. A Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative ...

A plastic, miniature digital fluorescence microscope has been developed that can quantify white blood cell levels in patients located in rural parts of the world that are far removed from the modern ...

The modern microscope is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to detecting disease, but typically the biological material being studied needs to be stained or dyed to reveal its secrets. This can ...

A tiny mirror could make a huge difference for scientists trying to understand what's happening in the micron-scale structures of living cells, report investigators. A tiny mirror could make a huge ...

UCLA engineers are touting a lens-free cell phone microscope -- a telemedicine innovation lauded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Geographic and the National Science Foundation-- as a ...

Brian Abbey receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Belinda Parker receives funding from the DHHS, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia, ...

WASHINGTON -- You can learn a lot about the state of someone's immune system just by examining their blood under the microscope. An abnormally high or low white blood count, for instance, might ...