Combating Disease: Improved smartphone microscope brings single-virus detection to remote locations

Published: Oct. 22, 2022, 6:43 p.m.

Scientists are reporting an advance in smartphone-based imaging that could help physicians in far-flung and resource-limited locations monitor how well treatments for infections are working by detecting, for the first time, individual viruses. Their study on the light-weight device, which converts the phone into a powerful mini-microscope, appears in the journal ACS Nano.