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Nanowire arrays restore vision in blind mice

• Jaruzel 9y ago
  For people like me, who find reading these papers verbatim hard work, one sentence in the article is worth repeating here: "...although NW arrays used in present work have not been capable for color vision, further development of multiple nanowire types with different spectral responses may be a potentially feasible strategy to realize such a scenario in the near future. " So the nano-wires do work, but for monochrome type vision. I think.
  • thaumasiotes 9y ago
    My experience looking at black-and-white pictures and video suggests that, compared to being blind, the difference between color vision and monochrome vision is negligible.
    • CompuHacker 9y ago
      Squint and you'll find that vision is heavily reliant on contrast between light and dark rather than color fields.
  • rf15 9y ago
    well from there it's just mixing different wavelength ranges of "monochrome", so the difference is less than one might expect (yes I am ignoring the preprocessing cells that have to be in tune too for correct colour vision to work, but it's not that far off)