{"id":72662,"date":"2017-09-15T04:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-grafted-eyes-onto-a-blind-organisms-back-and-it-could-see"},"modified":"2017-09-15T04:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T11:04:16","slug":"scientists-grafted-eyes-onto-a-blind-organisms-back-and-it-could-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/scientists-grafted-eyes-onto-a-blind-organisms-back-and-it-could-see","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grafted Eyes Onto a Blind Organism\u2019s Back, and It Could See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/02WfJlVNTXA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Tufts University were able to graft eyes to the tails of blind <i>Xenopus<\/i>, giving the tadpoles the ability to detect colors, focus on objects, and consistently follow patterns.<\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough for regenerative medicine, <a href=\"http:\/\/now.tufts.edu\/news-releases\/blind-tadpoles-learn-visually-after-researchers-graft-eyes-tails-and-treat-them\">researchers have developed<\/a> working eyes attached to the tails of blind <i>Xenopus<\/i> tadpoles. The tadpoles were able to process visual information from their environment upon the augmentation, helping scientist understand the process of promoting innervation (a part of the body\u2019s nerve supply) in regenerative medicine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-grafted-eyes-onto-a-blind-organisms-back-and-it-could-see\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-grafted-eyes-onto-a-blind-or...could-see\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Tufts University were able to graft eyes to the tails of blind Xenopus, giving the tadpoles the ability to detect colors, focus on objects, and consistently follow patterns. In a breakthrough for regenerative medicine, researchers have developed working eyes attached to the tails of blind Xenopus tadpoles. The tadpoles were able to process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72662","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}