SciShow: Seeing Like Mantis Shrimp to Spot Cancer

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Content of the Lesson: Mantis shrimp might as well be super heroes, and one of their powers might given us insight on how to spot cancer. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, KatieMarie Magnone, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Drew Hart, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12140 https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polarization https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/schwartz/files/lecture14-polarization.pdf https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-4-10-1263&id=375131 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/15/501443254/watch-mantis-shrimps-incredible-eyesight-yields-clues-for-detecting-cancer https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/shedding-light-on-light-in-the-ocean/ https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/light/Lesson-1/Polarization https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528539/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/mantis-shrimp-inspires-a-new-camera-for-detecting-cancer-180952927/ https://ece.illinois.edu/newsroom/news/3880 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263781666_Screening_Cancer_Aggressiveness_by_Using_Circularly_Polarized_Light https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-19/issue-12/126002/Trimodal-color-fluorescence-polarization-endoscopy-aided-by-a-tumor-selective/10.1117/1.JBO.19.12.126002.full https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=6880796 https://www.sciencealert.com/mantis-shrimp-can-see-cancer-before-symptoms-appear https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334027644_Polarized_Light-Based_Cancer_Cell_Detection_Techniques_A_Review https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346701860_Angular_optimization_for_cancer_identification_with_circularly_polarized_light https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049010/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26585281/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAfIrb2epn4&ab_channel=NewsAtIllinois https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mantis-shrimp-gm146881481-8703545 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circular.Polarization.Circularly.Polarized.Light_Left.Hand.Animation.305x190.255Colors.gif https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunglasses-gm530261147-54746410 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/peacock-mantis-shrimp-gm467993194-60754950 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mantis-shrimp-eyes-gm160057120-17795723


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