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Paper Microscope

In the "what are humans … that you have made them a little less than the angels" (Ps. 8) department, a Stanford bioengineer created a 50-cent microscope. The creator, Manu Prakash, was concerned that poor regions of the world didn't have the technology to detect many diseases that afflicted them. "I wanted to make the best possible disease-detection instrument that we could almost distribute for free," ...

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Issue 1 / July 24, 2014
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    The little-known, last-minute act of courage and faith. / Mark Galli

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