| Title | Nature’s Elegant and Efficient Vision Systems can Detect Cancer | |
| Date | Monday September 29 2014, @11:58PM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| from the seeing-is-believing dept. | ||
The University of Queensland reports:
Mantis shrimp eyes are inspiring the design of new cameras that can detect a variety of cancers and visualise brain activity.
University of Queensland research has found that the shrimp’s compound eyes are superbly tuned to detect polarised light, providing a streamlined framework for technology to mimic.
Professor Justin Marshall, from the Queensland Brain Institute at UQ, said cancerous tissue reflected polarised light differently to surrounding healthy tissue.
“Humans can’t see this, but a mantis shrimp could walk up to it and hit it,” he said.
“We see colour with hues and shades, and objects that contrast – a red apple in a green tree for example – but our research is revealing a number of animals that use polarised light to detect and discriminate between objects.
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