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aortega on Oct 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics

Severe jaundice in newborns is treated with blue leds http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/leds-used-to-help...

Edit: LED lasers that enabled things like the Internet (Optical fibers often use DBF Lasers) were invented by Alferov and Kroemer that also shared the physics Nobel price in 2000.

nsajko on Oct 7, 2014 [–]

Cool. It works because bilirubin oxidises under blue light into a form more soluble in water. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal_jaundice#Treatment

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