You’ve got to love Aydogan Ozcan. The UCLA professor is coming out with new laboratory equipment that relies on accessible technology every few months now. He and his team have previously released a system for detecting Albumin and a smartphone device for finding allergens in food. And, last October, we covered a 3D-printed microscope adapter for your smartphone. Most recently, the professor and his team have published a paper detailing a mercury detector that, as you may have guessed, also relies on a smartphone with a bit of 3D printing to boot. The ability to detect poisonous heavy metals has decreased in cost recently, but, as the report points out, low-cost methods for detecting something like mercury don’t utilize the technology that so many people carry around in their pockets.…
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