January 18, 2013 –
The LegoScope – a simple microscope based upon the CellScope developed in Fletcher Lab and built with Legos – was featured on ABC7 news on Thursday, January 17.
The LegoScope was conceived by three UCSF graduate students, including BioE student Harrison Liu, during a collaboration between UC Berkeley, UCSF, and famous Bay Area product design firm IDEO. The team hopes that the DIY microscope will help students around the world learn optics and microscopy, unconstrained by budgets and equipment.
Check out their segment on KGO TV.
Read more about the UCSF-IDEO collaboration to improve medical science with cutting-edge design.