Microscopes were inaccessible to most of the world until Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski put their engineering prowess to the test. Danielle is an Assistant Editor at The Scientist. She has a background ...

But Manu Prakash wants to change that. Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, is the proprietor of "frugal science," a term he coined to explain the movement toward ...