Manu Prakash
@ManuPra18599785
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Equitable access to science for everyone. Frugal science, physics of life. I lead @PrakashLab at Stanford. co-founder @teamfoldscope @cephlainc @planktoscope
Joined June 2020
🎉 Congratulations to our August Foldscoper of the Month, Nagaraj! 🎉 📚 Nagaraj is a biochemist from India with a Master’s degree from the School of Life Sciences, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research in Mysuru. His journey into science began during his internship at
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🔬 Want free microscopes and training? Applications for Fast & Curious USA 2025-2026 are now open! Educators and community leaders in the US can apply to receive free Foldscopes (paper microscopes), hands-on training, and lesson plans to use with their students and communities.
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Fast & Curious 2025–2026 is a program that brings free professional development workshops and our paper microscopes, Foldscopes, to communities across the United States. Each session trains teachers...
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Wonderful collaboration with the labs of Carolyn Moores @BirkbeckScience & Gregory Voth @UChiChemistry 🤩 I am still amazed how well the in vitro structure fits into the in vivo structure! Congrats to @MamataBangera et al. https://t.co/5YfmHpuz8m
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@KathyAmosYCS @TeamFoldscope @NCBioNetwork great day training for after school programs! Great teachers who received a class set of Foldscopes Minis for each school site!!
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🔬 Connecticut College freshmen explored the microscopic world with Foldscope during their Science Leaders pre-orientation program. 🌱 After collecting pond samples from the Arboretum, students assembled their own paper microscopes and examined their first specimens, an
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🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training! This fall we’re relaunching our Fast & Curious tour — bringing free Foldscopes (paper microscopes), workshops, and lesson plans to educators across the United States. Each educator will receive free training, a Foldscope to keep, plus
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🔬 Dr. Manu Prakash delivered the 2025 Murty Trust Annual Lecture in Bengaluru, speaking on “From Paper Microscopes to Global Change” and the power of frugal science. Hosted by the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), the event brought together over 350 students,
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Yesterday, I had the privilege of listening to Manu Prakash of Foldscope. Honestly, I went in expecting the usual slides full of jargon and graphs I'd pretend to understand. But I braved the Bengaluru rain and traffic, and I'm so glad I did. After a warm introduction by Prof.
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It was an inspiring weekend interacting with Manu Prakash & listening to stories of curiosity & exploration. His thoughts about perceived boundaries & importance of scaling our work gave me a new perspective to my goal of popularising fundamental science ✏️ https://t.co/n9ajVLIwgG
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The artist and his art Thanks @ManuPra18599785 for a wonderful talk interweaving science and its societal implications. Worth getting drenched in Bengaluru's rain to get to PuttanaChetty hall.
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Some talks don’t end. They linger. They keep you awake.. @ManuPra18599785 @PrakashLab @NCBS_Bangalore
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🎉 Congratulations to our July Foldscoper of the Month, Adhrit Pradeep! 🎉 📚 Adhrit is a 12-year-old student from India with a remarkable passion for science. At home, he has built his own lab for biology and robotics, and he dreams of advancing the field of biorobotics and
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🎨 New Blog Post: Foldscope Explores – Microscopy and Art 🔬🖌️ What happens when you bring microscopes into the art classroom? At the 2025 Creativity Rising STEAM Conference, educators discovered how Foldscope 2.0 can spark curiosity and creativity across subjects. In this
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🌸 New Blog Post: Foldscope Explores… Tiny Pollinators 🐜🔬 In June, flowers are in full bloom and pollinators arrive. While bees and butterflies are easy to spot, others are almost invisible to the eye. In this post, Foldscope Education Specialist Holly A. Stuart uses a
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