Light-Guiding Hydrogel Implant (IMAGE)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Light-Guiding Hydrogel Implant

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Light passing through an optical fiber (left) can either carry in a signal that stimulates the activity of cells embedded in the hydrogel implant or bring back a signal generated by cells responding to something in their environment.

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(Harvard Bio-Optics Lab/Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass. General Hospital)

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