Counting Molecules with an Ordinary Cell Phone

Researchers in the lab of Rustem Ismagilov, Caltech's Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine, have developed a new visual imaging technology for analysis of complex molecular information that doesn't require counting or visual data interpretation, so the results can be read quickly - even by those with little or no training. [Read the paper].