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Nanolens Microscopes Detect Viruses Such as Flu

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2013 — As the flu spreads like wildfire across the US, quickly diagnosing patients with aches, pains, fever and chills has never been more important. A new optical microscopy method aims to do just that by using tiny liquid lenses that self-assemble around microscopic objects. When coupled with computer-based computational reconstruction techniques, the portable, cost-effective microscopy platform developed at the University of California, Los Angeles, can detect individual viruses, such as the flu, and nanoparticles, making it potentially useful in the diagnosis of diseases in point-of-care...Read full article

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    Published: January 2013
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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