{"id":139317,"date":"2022-05-13T22:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T03:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-just-brought-light-sensing-cells-in-human-eyes-back-to-life"},"modified":"2022-05-13T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T03:23:36","slug":"scientists-just-brought-light-sensing-cells-in-human-eyes-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-just-brought-light-sensing-cells-in-human-eyes-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just brought light-sensing cells in human eyes back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-brought-light-sensing-cells-in-human-eyes-back-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Death may be the most uncanny topic to discuss for human beings. Even thinking about it is uncomfortable for some people.<\/p>\n<p>To eliminate the mystery behind it, researchers worldwide are conducting scientific studies on death and coming up with surprising results, such as when <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/brain-programmed-to-coordinate-death\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/brain-programmed-to-coordinate-death\">researchers captured brainwaves during an individual\u2019s death<\/a> and found semblance to high cognition activities.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a team of scientists from the U.S. may have found a way to revive a glimmer of activity in human eyes after death. According to a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04709-x\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">study published yesterday<\/a> (May 11, 2022) in the journal <em>Nature,<\/em> the team has managed to revive the connections between light-sensing neurons in organ donor eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death may be the most uncanny topic to discuss for human beings. Even thinking about it is uncomfortable for some people. To eliminate the mystery behind it, researchers worldwide are conducting scientific studies on death and coming up with surprising results, such as when researchers captured brainwaves during an individual\u2019s death and found semblance to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139317","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\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}