Founded in the mobile microscopy lab at UC Berkeley, a young startup called CellScope is on a mission to turn your smart, mobile devices into a microscope, giving parents the ability to perform easy, ...

A few months ago, we took a look at the CellScope, a tool that turns camera-enabled cell phones and netbooks into handheld microscopes that can diagnose diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. When we ...

I think we need to stop calling them cell phones, because our hand held devices are starting to have more capabilities than Batman's utility belt. Controlling robots, projecting images, depositing ...

April 15, 2009 The CellScope is a revolutionary attachment that turns a standard camera-enabled cell phone into a clinical quality microscope, with magnification up to 50X. Health workers in ...

Cameras in smartphones will inevitably replace nearly all portable cameras and camcorders, but could they also make basic medical instruments obsolete? A startup called CellScope plans to do just that ...

Of all the reasons that children are taken to the pediatrician, ear infections are among the most common. The children don't like going, obviously, plus those visits place a burden on parents and ...

He told them to imagine working in a remote African village at the time of a disease outbreak, and that all they have at their disposal is a camera cell phone and an assortment of basic optics lenses ...

It was over a year ago that UC Berkeley introduced the world to CellScope, the 60x microscope for cellphones made from cheap, off the shelf components (like a re-purposed belt clip). Now, even though ...

The humble smartphone is being called into action as a potentially life-saving medical device in Africa, where combined with a specially designed microscope accessory, it is testing blood samples for ...

What if you could diagnose an ear infection with your cell phone? That might be possible thanks to an innovation from University of California, Berkeley professor Daniel Fletcher. What if you could ...

CellScope is a UC Berkeley project designed to enable microscopic image captures from a cell phone's camera. At first it might sound like a pointlessly geeky project to do microscopy on a cell phone, ...

CellScope, a San Francisco startup, believes that telemedicine’s next frontier is buried under earwax. The company makes a case that slides over the iPhone and transforms it into an otoscope, the ...