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China’s soldiers to get a massive advantage as scientists create SUPER VISION
CHINESE soldiers could soon have an advantage over their enemies after researchers made a huge breakthrough in creating ‘super vision’ for their army.
By SEAN MARTIN
PUBLISHED: 14:38, Fri, Mar 1, 2019 | UPDATED: 14:45, Fri, Mar 1, 2019
Researchers have discovered that by injecting nanoparticles into the eyeballs of mice, it allowed them to see in infrared vision. Seeing in infrared light essentially allows the subject to see heat sources and would allow soldiers to take on dangerous missions at night WITHOUT the need of night vision googles. The researchers state that the breakthrough might also be able to help people born with severe colour blindness.
In the initial trials, mice were injected with photoreceptor cells known as rods and cones.
When the light hits the retina, the rods, which are wrapped around the eye’s natural photoreceptor cells, are able to absorb light at a much longer wavelength than our current vision can expect.
Infrared has a much longer wavelength than ‘visible light’, and the injected cones absorb the longer wavelength and send the signal to the brain, according to the research published in the journal Cell.
Biochemist Prof Gang Han, of the University of Massachusetts, explained: "When light enters the eye and hits the retina, the rods and cones - or photoreceptor cells - absorb the photons with visible light wavelengths and send corresponding electric signals to the brain.
"Because infrared wavelengths are too long to be absorbed by photoreceptors, we are not able to perceive them.”
Neuroscientist Dr Jin Bao, a member of Prof Xue's lab, said: "In our experiment, nanoparticles absorbed infrared light around 980 nm (nanometres) in wavelength and converted it into light peaked at 535 nm, which made the infrared light appear as the colour green."
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...-super-vision-infrared-light-colour-blindness
CHINESE soldiers could soon have an advantage over their enemies after researchers made a huge breakthrough in creating ‘super vision’ for their army.
By SEAN MARTIN
PUBLISHED: 14:38, Fri, Mar 1, 2019 | UPDATED: 14:45, Fri, Mar 1, 2019
Researchers have discovered that by injecting nanoparticles into the eyeballs of mice, it allowed them to see in infrared vision. Seeing in infrared light essentially allows the subject to see heat sources and would allow soldiers to take on dangerous missions at night WITHOUT the need of night vision googles. The researchers state that the breakthrough might also be able to help people born with severe colour blindness.
In the initial trials, mice were injected with photoreceptor cells known as rods and cones.
When the light hits the retina, the rods, which are wrapped around the eye’s natural photoreceptor cells, are able to absorb light at a much longer wavelength than our current vision can expect.
Infrared has a much longer wavelength than ‘visible light’, and the injected cones absorb the longer wavelength and send the signal to the brain, according to the research published in the journal Cell.
Biochemist Prof Gang Han, of the University of Massachusetts, explained: "When light enters the eye and hits the retina, the rods and cones - or photoreceptor cells - absorb the photons with visible light wavelengths and send corresponding electric signals to the brain.
"Because infrared wavelengths are too long to be absorbed by photoreceptors, we are not able to perceive them.”
Neuroscientist Dr Jin Bao, a member of Prof Xue's lab, said: "In our experiment, nanoparticles absorbed infrared light around 980 nm (nanometres) in wavelength and converted it into light peaked at 535 nm, which made the infrared light appear as the colour green."
https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...-super-vision-infrared-light-colour-blindness
