Mobile phones could detect common diseases

The camera in an ordinary mobile phone could be used as a microscope for early, easy and cheap detection of common parasitical and bacterial diseases. The organisms are first identified in a portable nanotechnological detector, developed at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering, which is then plugged in to the phone...

Do you know your epigenome?

Every person is born with a unique set of genes that they inherit from their parents. The only exception is identical twins, who are born with identical DNA sequences. With the years, even twins develop increasing differences in appearance and in the diseases they get. Why is this? The answer...