One Of The Teams Of Scientists That Won The 2022 Golden Goose Awards,

developed this,

photograph American Association for the Advancement of Science, I should say that the competition is organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for their research projects that morphed from “wait, what?” moments to pioneering breakthroughs.

“The Golden Goose Award reminds us that potential discoveries could be hidden in every corner and illustrates the benefits of investing in basic research to propel innovation,” said Sudip S. Parikh, chief executive officer at AAAS and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

but what is it? it is a Foldscope, a flat-packed microscope made from paper and a single ball lens, “It took an immense amount of engineering. In that earliest phase, I was sat next to labs with million-dollar microscopes. We wanted to make a microscope at a price point of $1.” people initially thought the idea was a bit silly, Prakash said, and getting funding for the work was a challenge, fast-forward to 2022. The Foldscope isn’t quite as cheap as a dollar, but at a cost of $1.75 to make, it’s a tiny fraction of the price point of most lab equipment. The final magnification of the telescope is about 140x, powerful enough to see a malaria parasite in a cell. The instruments have been deployed across the world in a dizzying array of applications. Last year in India, the Foldscope was used to identify a new type of cyanobacteria. The microscope has also helped to identify fake drugs, Prakash said, what an amazing invention, a pocket microscope.