More on disease diagnosis with a mobile phone

This is a quick follow up on an earlier post entitled "Did you say disease diagnosis with a mobile phone?" Newsweek recently did a story on this discovery entitled Dial "D" for Diagnosis. The story, for one, throws a human light on the discovery, by telling us that this potentially socially transforming technology came about from a challenge thrown to a class of Biomedical Engineering graduate students at University of California, Berkeley, by Professor Daniel Fletcher. He apparently asked the students to respond to an imaginary scenario where were hiking in a remote village where an unknown infectious disease was spreading, what could you build with only a camera cell phone and a backpack of lenses that might help identify the disease? This is a quick follow up on an earlier post entitled "Did you say disease diagnosis with a mobile phone?" Newsweek recently did a story on this discovery entitled Dial "D" for Diagnosis. The story, for one, throws a human light on the discovery, by telling us that this potentially socially transforming technology came about from a challenge thrown to a class of Biomedical Engineering graduate students at University of California, Berkeley, by Professor Daniel Fletcher. He apparently asked the students to respond to an imaginary scenario where they were hiking in a remote village where an unknown infectious disease was spreading, and they had to build a device that might help identify the disease, with only a camera cell phone and a backpack of lenses. The product: the Cellscope (please bear with the intro ad). Here is another link to a Youtube video.

Breslauer, D., Maamari, R., Switz, N., Lam, W., & Fletcher, D. (2009). Mobile Phone Based Clinical Microscopy for Global Health Applications PLoS ONE, 4 (7) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006320