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“What if you could drop microscopes literally around the world from an airplane?” Manu Prakash, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University would often joke with his team. This musing ...

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 ...

Manu Prakash, a bioengineer at Stanford has designed an origami paper microscope called a Foldscope. He hopes students and life-long learners throughout the world will use them to explore and answer ...

Eight-year-old S. Hariraj is a Foldscope devotee. He's used it to look at the milk from the cows his parents raise. Though the milk looks creamy, the Foldscope reveals a world of microorganisms. "It ...

The Foldscope was designed by Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski at Stanford University and launched in a pilot program in 2014. Its waterproof paper body can be folded into existence from one sheet and ...

If disease pathogens can be made visible on the field, as in the Ebola outbreak, then health workers would be aided in their work. But imaging equipment is often bulky and expensive, almost impossible ...

Even now and before, "microscope" plays a major role as an entrance to the world of science. Microscopes are also very important tools for children's education, but sometimes it is not easy to get ...

A workshop on Foldscope, jointly organised by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai; Eden Science Club, Madurai; and Tamil Nadu Science Forum was held at the Panchayat Union Primary ...

A cheap, rugged microscope made of paper that performs as well as many commercial research microscopes could soon be yours. The Foldscope can be assembled by punching out parts and folding them from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cheap, rugged microscope made of paper that performs as well as many commercial research microscopes could soon be yours. The ...