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Nanotechnology could compensate for photoreceptor loss

Experts in nanotechnology and other fields have developed a new way to get information into the nervous system using light. This photochemical approach for imparting light sensitivity to neurons that are not normally light sensitive could compensate for degenerative loss of photoreceptors in the retina.

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