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Spinoff story
NASA Research Illuminates Medical Uses of Light
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Multi Radiance Medical Inc. of Solon, Ohio, builds light-therapy devices based in part on NASA-funded research. Though health benefits of exposure to certain wavelengths were known, experiments that Marshall Space Flight Center helped fund, with an eye toward addressing atrophy and inhibited healing in space, lent credence to the field and established the effectiveness of LED arrays for safer, portable devices.