NEW YORK: Researchers from the University of California, LA also known as UCLA have developed a new device that is able to turn any ,a href=”http://www.slashgear.com/tags/smartphone/”>smartphone into a DNA scanning fluorescent microscope. This microscope allows a smartphone to image DNA, which is about 50,000 times thinner than a single human hair.
Typically very bulky and expensive optical microscopy tools are needed to image DNA and those tools are limited to laboratory settings. The components used in the smartphone accessory are much cheaper and much smaller.
