Thursday, June 26, 2014

Fwd: Print-and-Fold Origami Microscope for 50 cents



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06/26/2014 10:11 AM EDT
Here I am checking out the Foldscope at the White House Maker Faire on June 18. Very cool!
When Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash traveled to a mosquito-infested rainforest in Thailand a couple of years ago, he visited a clinic with a sophisticated, $100,000 microscope that sat unused in a locked room. It was then Prakash realized that what global health workers really need is an ultra-low cost, simple-to-use, portable microscope that could […]

 


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