Daily briefing: How ‘thunderquakes’ probe underground geology
Nature, Published online: 24 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02665-4 Thunder generates acoustic waves that can help scientists probe the Earth, a person’s own mitochondria have been injected into their eyes in an attempt to restore their vision and economists call for ‘pro-worker’ AI,
Scientists have injected a woman's own mitochondria into her eye fluid in an attempt to treat severe blindness, but the procedure had limited success in restoring light responses and did not restore the woman's vision. The procedure demonstrated that injecting a person's own mitochondria into the eyes was "relatively safe," says mitochondria biologist Temurkhan Ayupov.
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