“It is potentially much faster than a microscope,” he said. “You don’t have to scan mechanically” as people must with a microscope with its small field of view.
“It’s a way of looking quickly for a needle in a haystack,” he said.
M. Fatih Yanik, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: “This makes it possible for ordinary people to gather medical information in the field just by using a cell phone adapted with cheap parts.”
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