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Scientists diagnose intestinal worms -- using an iPhone microscope

1 pointsby rathish_gabout 12 years ago
An Apple product may help keep the doctor away in Tanzania. In a discovery that provides doctors in remote areas with an alternative, scientists recently created a microscope using an iPhone, tape, flashlight and camera lens. They then used it to diagnose intestinal worms in about 200 students in Pemba Island, off Tanzania's eastern coast.

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