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Plant Eyes in a Mouse: The Weirdest Transplant Ever Actually Worked
Imagine grafting a solar panel into your arm and having it actually generate power for your body. Researchers took chloroplasts from plants and put them in mouse eye cells — and the cells photosynthesize.
This means the boundary between what's "plant" and what's "animal" is far more permeable than we thought, and it opens wild possibilities for hybrid tissues we've never imagined.
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