ReviewMicroscopy research and technique2022
A review on low-cost microscopes for Open Science.
Review in Microscopy research and technique, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Challenges of microscopy technology dissemination to resource-constrained communities.Nature methods · 2026Article
- Motilitometer: A compact modular microscope for motility and photoresponse analysis of microorganisms.HardwareX · 2026Article
- An epifluorescence microscope design for naturalistic behavior and cellular activity in freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Cryogenic electron tomography by the numbers: Charting underexplored lineages in structural cell biology.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Rapid parasitological indicators as practical biosecurity tools in inland Nile tilapia (Veterinary world · 2025Article
- Smartphones as Catalysts for Synergistic Nutrition: A New Era in Bioactive Detection, Personalization, and Food System Intelligence.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Microscopy image reconstruction with physics-informed denoising diffusion probabilistic model.Communications engineering · 2024Article
- Advances in Portable Optical Microscopy Using Cloud Technologies and Artificial Intelligence for Medical Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Towards global insect biomonitoring with frugal methods.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Orthogonal-view microscope for the biomechanics investigations of aquatic organisms.HardwareX · 2024Article
- Growth Independent Morphometric Machine Learning Workflow for Single-Cell Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing ofFrontiers in imaging (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Low-cost fluorescence microscope with microfluidic device fabrication for optofluidic applications.HardwareX · 2023Article
- Utilization of accessible resources in the fabrication of an affordable, portable, high-resolution, 3D printed, digital microscope for Philippine diagnostic applications.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- A Smartphone-Based Low-Cost Inverted Laser Fluorescence Microscope for Disease Diagnosis.Biosensors · 2022Article
- A review on low-cost microscopes for Open Science.Microscopy research and technique · 2022Review
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Abstract
This article presents a review after an exhaustive search that yielded 23 works carried out in the last decade for the availability of optical microscopes with open hardware as a low-cost alternative to commercial systems. These works were developed with the aim of covering needs within several areas such as: Bio Sciences research in institutions with limited resources, diagnosis of diseases and health screenings in large populations in developing countries, and training in educational contexts with a need for high availability of equipment and low replacement cost. The analysis of the selected works allows us to classify the analyzed solutions into two main categories, for which their essential characteristics are enumerated: portable field microscopes and multipurpose automated microscopes. Moreover, this work includes a discussion on the degree of maturity of the solutions in terms of the adoption of practices aligned with the development of Open Science. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: Concise review on low-cost microscopes for developing Open Science, exposing the role of smartphone-based microscopy. The work classifies microscopes in two main categories: (1) portable field microscopes, and (2) multipurpose automated microscopes.
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