The invention of the compound optical microscope by Hans and Zacharias ... when it became possible to see bacteria and blood cells, for instance. Since then the Nobel Prize has been awarded ...

“Identifying bacteria types is easy if specialized ... which connects to the eyepiece of optical microscopes. “Key opinion leaders suggested we develop the technology on smartphones, as ...

Optical microscopes depend on light, of course, but they are also limited by that same light. Typically, anything under 200 nanometers just blurs together because of the wavelength of the light ...

Looking at a slide teeming with bacteria or protozoans is less ... As [Zachary Tong] points out, confocal scanning microscopy uses a clever optical setup to collect light from a single, well ...