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  • Top stories for 2017: Mantis shrimp visual system leads to cancer detecting camera

    Dec 29, 2017 4:30 pm by Lois YoksoulianResearch
    electrical and computer engineering professor Viktor Gruev, and graduate student Missael Garci. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • electrical and computer engineering professor Viktor Gruev, and graduate student Missael Garci. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

    By mimicking the eye of the mantis shrimp, Illinois researchers developed an ultra-sensitive camera capable of sensing both color and polarization.