Bit there's always a catch....I was at a meeting at NCI last, and we shared a cab where I got the straight story. The shadowing bit does not work on an unmodified cameraphone. Mostly this a m opportunity to cell large imagers. Details on request. Paul Yager Professor & Chair Dept. of Bioengineering University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-5061 USA

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On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:53 PM, "ashish makani" <ashish.makani@gmail.com<mailto:ashish.makani@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Folks Two health related news 1. This is similar to Cellscope<http://cellscope.berkeley.edu/>, but does not use lenses, but holograms(cell-shadowing). <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830111242.htm>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110830111242.htm This could be huge for doing diagnosis in the field in villages & rural areas. More info: a. Talk by Prof. Aydogan Ozcan <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQUHhdGUII&feature=player_embedded> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FQUHhdGUII b. Another related article on flow cytometry using cell phones <http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineers-create-cell-phone-210982.aspx>http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-engineers-create-cell-phone-210982.aspx c. An older 2009 NYT article <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08novel.html?_r=1> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/business/08novel.html?_r=1 2. Some good news on the malaria front a. Scientists may have found a critical weakness in Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria which could provide a promising target for new malaria therapies. <http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/31/140069350/a-remnant-from-algae-in-malaria-parasite-may-prove-its-weakness>http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/31/140069350/a-remnant-from-algae-in-malaria-parasite-may-prove-its-weakness b. The US Army & Walter Reed spend considerable time & risk to fight malaria & develop vaccines <http://www.npr.org/2011/08/15/139641878/at-walter-reed-military-medicine-fights-malaria>http://www.npr.org/2011/08/15/139641878/at-walter-reed-military-medicine-fights-malaria cheers ashish _______________________________________________ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu<mailto:change@change.washington.edu> http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change