TB tests use phlegm — not the easiest thing to get or work with. It takes time for results. And there can be false negatives ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples that a ...

You can download the recipe for the OpenFlexure microscope from GitHub, feed it into a 3D printer and, combined with a little camera and computer, you have a way to ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost, origami-inspired microscope called the Foldscope. The device costs just pennies to produce and can provide up to 2,000x magnification. Scientists and educators ...

University of Arizona researchers have developed a smartphone device that could benefit the water treatment industry by detecting low levels of an extremely contagious virus in a matter of minutes.