Manu Prakash

Manu Prakash is a professor at Stanford University doing amazing research on low-cost devices to help people living in poverty around the world. For example, Manu Prakash has invented a 50 cent microscope and a 20 cent blood centrifuge.

How to save 51 billion lives for 68 cents with simple Engineering
The Foldscope: A Paper Microscope that Costs $1
This Simple Paper Centrifuge Could Revolutionize Global Health | WIRED
Sharing Science Through Origami Microscopes
Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami
Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper | Manu Prakash
Computing with fluids | Manu Prakash

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