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The Foldscope – a microscope for a dollar

Diagnosis is the frontier of helping to solve diseases threatening the world. But often equipment to do this is bulky, fragile and expensive. 34-year-old Biophysicist Manu Prakash, an assistant at Stanford, decided this was no longer a good and effect way of working and came up with a lightweight, low cost alternative to the larger equipment. The pocket-sized microscope, created from a single sheet of paper with a pair of lenses and an LED. Amazingly this costs around $1.