There's an entire world you cannot see with the human eye alone. Since 1590 microscopes have been helping doctors diagnose, and allowing students to observe the minuscule. Now, one of those students is helping to cross another frontier, taking microscopes out of the lab and putting them in the hands of anyone with a smartphone.

Originally released by American Institute of Physics, 2014. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 08, 2014.

Turn Your Smartphone into a Microscope --(2:00) .