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A blind mouse's visual cortex responds to light after an injection of carbon nitride particles
An Aarhus-led team injected 300-nanometre semiconductor particles into mice with advanced retinitis pigmentosa and recorded light-driven activity in the visual cortex, a route to restoring light sensitivity that does not depend on the patient's mutation.
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