{"id":828,"date":"2010-06-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/the-daily-dose-phoning-in-the-diagnosis.html"},"modified":"2010-06-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T10:00:00","slug":"the_daily_dose_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/the_daily_dose_1.html","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Dose- Phoning in the diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s daily dose shows how a cell phone camera could have broad implications for global health.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAydogan Ozcan is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA. From $10 worth of parts, he built an apparatus that turns a cell phone into a mobile microscope.  His device contains no lens, instead relying on a system of electronic magnification that creates a hologram, which is then transmitted wirelessly to a lab. The cellphone microscope could help doctors working in remote areas rapidly analyze patient blood samples, allowing them to screen for diseases like malaria, TB and anemia.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VH5H6uSQUFE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VH5H6uSQUFE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ozcan&#8217;s paper detailing his methods can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsc.org\/publishing\/journals\/LC\/article.asp?doi=c003477k\">Lab on a Chip<\/a>; a team from Berkeley and UCSF published a paper on their cell phone microscope, which uses light microscopy, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006320\">PLoS ONE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s daily dose shows how a cell phone camera could have broad implications for global health.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/the_daily_dose_1.html#wpn-more-828\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/the_daily_dose_1.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}