Low-level light therapy: Applied Research and Clinics
The electromagnetic radiation is the key to safe and effective medical therapies, but only when applied at specific wavelengths and power levels. more...The degeneration of overstimulated retina
According to a new study by MIT researchers a DNA repair system that normally protects cells from damage can cause retinal degeneration and blindness when overstimulated. more...A work on a seeing machine
Elizabeth Goldring, a senior fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and colleagues began work on a "seeing machine," she smiles as she shows a visitor photos she's taken - and can see - with her blind eye. more...Light in treatment of Parkinson's disease
About the only thing doctors have understood about deep-brain stimulation, which is widely used to treat Parkinson's disease symptoms, is that somehow it works for many patients. more...Sensory processing of visual and tactile motion
In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects - like rocks - appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that this phenomenon, called motion aftereffect, occurs not only in our visual perception more...In The News
"Award to Commercialize CdTe Solar"Sunovia Energy Technologies Inc. and EPIR Technologies Inc. (Florida) have received a US $9 million Defense Department SBIR Phase III contract that allows for the expansion of production capacities and capabilities of the companies' cadmium telluride on silicon (CdTe/Si) manufacturing program
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