Human technology grows by leaps and bounds in many ways. And in so doing, it has also benefited human lives in many forms, be it in the manufacture of products and delivery of services from metals to health care. One such advance that can spell better lives through better health is the cell phone that can be used as a portable fluorescent microscope.

Said technological advance was developed by the researchers at the famed University of California Berkeley using a camera phone as a foundation. Initially called CellScope, which is obviously a play of the words cell phone and microscope, takes color images of tuberculosis and malaria parasites that are labeled with fluorescent markers.

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