{"id":102048,"date":"2020-02-07T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/theres-a-cancer-treatment-that-gives-people-night-vision-and-we-finally-know-why"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:07:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:07:17","slug":"theres-a-cancer-treatment-that-gives-people-night-vision-and-we-finally-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/theres-a-cancer-treatment-that-gives-people-night-vision-and-we-finally-know-why","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a Cancer Treatment That Gives People \u2018Night Vision\u2019, And We Finally Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-cancer-treatment-that-gives-people-night-vision-and-we-finally-know-why3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amongst all the different types of cancer treatment, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photodynamic_therapy\">photodynamic therapy<\/a> \u2014 where light in is used to destroy malignant cells \u2014 might have one of the strangest side effects: patients are often better able to see in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Now researchers have figured out why this happens: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhodopsin\">rhodopsin<\/a>, a light-sensitive protein in the retinas in our eyes, interacts with a photosensitive compound called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chlorin\">chlorin<\/a> e6, a crucial component of this type of cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The work builds on what scientists already know about the organic compound <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Retinal\">retinal<\/a>, which is found in the eye and usually isn\u2019t sensitive to infrared light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst all the different types of cancer treatment, photodynamic therapy \u2014 where light in is used to destroy malignant cells \u2014 might have one of the strangest side effects: patients are often better able to see in the dark. Now researchers have figured out why this happens: rhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein in the retinas in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}