Understanding retinal cell signals can lead to medical applications like restoring vision to the blind and developing neuroengineering devices that enhance nervous system function.

“what good is this to you know the everyday person right um What In addition to wanting to understand how we see you know what sort of sorts of medical applications can this provide in terms of potentially restoring Vision to the blind um but perhaps even larger theme is this notion of neuroengineering right taking this information and creating devices that can help us help our nervous system function better”