Introducing the LudusScope, a 3D-printed, open-sourced system that lets you control and play games with living microbes on your smartphone. Tormenting single-celled organisms has never been so ...

Other non-game applications provide microscope scale-bars, real-time displays of swimming speed or zoomed-in views of individual cells. These let kids collect data on Euglena behavior, swimming ...

An easily assembled smartphone microscope provides new ways of interacting with and learning about common microbes. The open-source device could be used by teachers or in other educational settings.

The Euglena are housed inside a microscope slide surrounded by four LEDs. Since the microbes are negatively phototactic – meaning they move away from intense light ...

With the new 3-D printed, easily assembled smartphone microscope developed at Stanford University, microbiology can now be turned into game time. The device allows kids to play games or make more ...

The film explores the origins and characteristics of protozoa, the first animals on Earth, which evolved from simple single-celled organisms. It discusses their size variations, locomotion methods ...

In surveys, only people who tried the microscope-only exhibit said their interest in microbes declined. All three exhibits led at least one person to express emotional concern for the Euglena.

Nearby, visitors could see where the action was actually occurring by peering through the microscope's eyepiece at the Euglena's habitat, where the silhouettes appeared in miniature.

Euglena was founded in 2005, and the company’s name comes from the algae it has been farming commercially ever since. Euglena gracilis is a tiny single-celled organism with plant and animal qualities.