James Tytko presents science news and we’re putting tuberculosis under the microscope.

However, by lighting up the phagosomes with fluorescent markers and then watching them handle an invasion of M. tuberculosis under the microscope, researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in ...

A new $240 microscope that runs on AA batteries is as effective for diagnosing tuberculosis as $40,000 professional laboratory models.

The fluid is checked under the microscope of using biochemical tests to detect tuberculosis. Ruling out other diagnoses Diagnosis that need to be ruled out while confirming tuberculosis include ...

A patient in rural Uganda is diagnosed with tuberculosis but never begins treatment. In Vietnam, someone with infectious TB might never be diagnosed because the health center is too far away. Adithya ...

Carl Zeiss, along with FIND, the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, has developed a fluorescence microscope — the Primo Star iLED — that detects tuberculosis in a power- and energy-saving, ...

Reporting in the journal PLoS ONE, scientists describe how to convert a camera-enabled cell phone into a fluorescent microscope capable of detecting and counting tuberculosis bacteria in a saliva ...

New research shows that a portable, battery-operated fluorescence microscope, which costs $240, stacks up nicely against devices that retail for as much as $40,000 in diagnosing signs of tuberculosis.

A few months ago, we took a look at the CellScope, a tool that turns camera-enabled cell phones and netbooks into handheld microscopes that can diagnose diseases like malaria and tuberculosis ...

A Rice University student has designed a microscope that costs only $240 to make, uses flashlight batteries and can fit in a lunchbox but does nearly as well at detecting tuberculosis as top ...

A new $240 microscope that runs on AA batteries is as effective for diagnosing tuberculosis as $40,000 professional laboratory models.