Significance: Chronic wounds affect millions of patients worldwide, placing a huge burden
on health care resources. Although significant progress has been made in the development …

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 …

Microplastic contamination of the environment is a major concern but detecting such
contamination presents a challenge, particularly for particles< 0.1 mm in size. Community …

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a global epidemic; however, many individuals are
able to obtain treatment and manage their condition. Progression to acquired …

Microplastics (MPs) are small plastic particles (< 5 mm in size) that are ubiquitous in the
environment and have even been detected in bottled water. In this laboratory experiment …

A rapid and easy method that takes advantage of an inexpensive and portable fibre-based
spectroscopic system (optrode) to determine the ratio of live to dead bacteria is proposed …

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common bacterial infections and would
greatly benefit from a rapid point-of-care diagnostic test. Although significant progress has …

In vivo fluorescent imaging represents a potent means for real-time probe quantification,
facilitating insights into disease pathophysiology and therapeutic responses. Nonetheless …

Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) has been widely used in gastrointestinal (GI) diagnosis
that allows the physicians to examine the interior wall of the human GI tract through a pain …

Optofluidic devices have revolutionized the manipulation and transportation of fluid at
smaller length scales ranging from micrometers to millimeters. We describe a dedicated …