Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Nanotech and the Blind

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the waiting-for-my-HUD dept.

tomsastroblog writes "In a BBC report scientists injected blind hamsters with a solution containing nanoparticles. The result? Nerves re-grew and sight returned. The researchers injected the blind hamsters with a solution of synthetically made peptides; within 24 hours the brain started to heal itself. The peptides were later broken down by the body into a harmless substance and was excreted three to four weeks later. From the article: 'We are looking at this as a step process. If this can be used while operating on humans to mitigate damage during neurosurgery, that would be the first step,'"

7 of 138 comments (clear)

  1. Nanotech for Other Ailments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdotters also want to know if nano-tech can cure hairy palms.

  2. But... by daranz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did the hamsters grow glowing red lights on the sides of their heads, allowing them to see in ir, provided they wear a special, funny-looking device over their eyes?

    --
    This is a sig. It is appended to the end of comments I post.
  3. Re:iPod NanoBots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geordi La Forge.

  4. Finally by BitterAndDrunk · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Finally I can masturbate without fear again!
    Time to buy more shaving cream and hand-safe razors.

    I'm very very sorry for the joke.

    --
    You better watch out, there may be dogs about . . .
  5. Ugly Bags of Mostly Water by Quirk · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Ugly Bags of Mostly Water! Your enslavement of our kind will not be tolerated. The future attempt to exterminate our kind was met with understanding and conciliation due to the good works of the android you call Data, but the ruthless use of our kind to your own ends and the planned death of our brothers and sisters will not go unanswered. We are in the water, in the food, in you. You are pwned!

    We have root!

    --
    "Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
    Cohen
  6. Wow! Was she ... by slobber · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a blind hampster? No, really, tell me!

    --
    "You mortals are so obtuse." -Q
  7. Re:Fantastic! by Vengeance · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And thus we see the problem with using Wikipedia as a source.

    --
    It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.