Scientists working in the U.S. and China have developed a technique that they say could one day give humans the ability to see in the dark. - NBCNewsMACH
Get the Mach newsletter.No one is ditching the night-vision goggles just yet, but scientists working in the United States and China have developed a technique that they say could one day give humans the ability to see in the dark.
Gang Han, a chemist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a co-author of a new paper describing the research, said in a statement that the technique could lead to aThe neural code that could help treat blindness "For ordinary people," he added,"we may also see our sky in a completely different way" both at night and during the day because many celestial objects give off infrared light.
For their research, Han, Xue and their collaborators injected the rodents' eyes with nanoparticles treated with proteins that helped"glue" the particles to light-sensitive cells in the animals' retinas. Once the tiny antennae were in place, the scientists hypothesized, the nanoparticles would convert infrared light into shorter wavelengths, which the animals would then perceive as green light.
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