<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f2e5e950-d79e-43b9-9c87-71b6eef0547b/B5A4A970-702C-4360-9775-6B9906B57C52/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=09/11/08/0829202" href="http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=09/11/08/0829202" style="font-size: 11px;">science.slashdot.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=09/11/08/0829202"><H3 class="story"> <SPAN class="vballoon-firehoselist-simple"> <SPAN>Comments:</SPAN> <A id="commentcnt-6883386" href="http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1435572">45</A> </SPAN> <SPAN class="vote" id="updown-6883386"><A title="Vote this item up" class="up" href="http://science.slashdot.org/faq/UI.shtml#ui700">+</A><A title="Vote this item down" class="down" href="http://science.slashdot.org/faq/UI.shtml#ui700">-</A></SPAN> <SPAN id="title-6883386"><SPAN title="Filter Firehose to entries rated red or better" class="sodify"></SPAN><SPAN title="Filter Firehose to entries rated red or better" class="soda pop1"><SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN> <A href="http://science.slashdot.org/tag/science" rel="tag" class="skin topic main tag">Science:</A> <A class="datitle" href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/11/08/0829202/Turning-a-Cell-Phone-Into-a-Microscope">Turning a Cell Phone Into a Microscope</A> <SPAN class="date">on Sunday November 08, @04:49AM</SPAN> <SPAN class="nickname"></SPAN></SPAN> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=09/11/08/0829202"><STRONG> Posted by <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/">timothy</A> <SPAN id="fhtime-6883386">on Sunday November 08, @04:49AM</SPAN></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=09/11/08/0829202"><DIV> stupendou writes with this excerpt from the <EM>New York Times</EM>: <I>"Microscopes are invaluable tools to identify blood and other cells when screening for diseases like anemia, tuberculosis and malaria. But they are also bulky and expensive. Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08novel.html?_r=1">adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes</A>."</I> But not based on optical magnification: the article explains that Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA assistant professor of electrical engineering, has combined the wireless transmission abilities and imaging sensors now typical in wireless phones to make the phones capable of detecting cell abnormalities and more by capturing wave interference patterns from body fluids — like blood — and sending them on for analysis. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5A4A970-702C-4360-9775-6B9906B57C52/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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