{"id":76104,"date":"2018-02-20T05:44:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/add-on-clip-turns-smartphone-into-fully-operational-microscope"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:13:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:13:50","slug":"add-on-clip-turns-smartphone-into-fully-operational-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/add-on-clip-turns-smartphone-into-fully-operational-microscope","title":{"rendered":"Add-on clip turns smartphone into fully operational microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/add-on-clip-turns-smartphone-into-fully-operational-microscope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) have developed a 3D printable \u2018clip-on\u2019 that can turn any smartphone into a fully functional microscope.<\/p>\n<p>Reported in the research journal <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, the smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualise specimens as small as 1\/200th of a millimetre, including microscopic organisms, animal and plant cells, blood cells, cell nuclei and more.<\/p>\n<p>The clip-on technology is unique in that it requires no external power or light source to work yet offers high-powered microscopic performance in a robust and mobile handheld package.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-02-add-on-smartphone-fully-microscope.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;02-add-on-smartphone-fully-microscope.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) have developed a 3D printable \u2018clip-on\u2019 that can turn any smartphone into a fully functional microscope. Reported in the research journal Scientific Reports, the smartphone microscope is powerful enough to visualise specimens as small as 1\/200th of a millimetre, including microscopic organisms, animal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76199,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76104\/revisions\/76199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}