How This Dye Uses Light In Therapy

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]And we've been using methylene blue in the clinic, especially for cancer patients.

[00:00:05]Because if you take this methylene blue and you have you put it in the person's body and then you shine red lights on the body, the methylene blue activates. So, it's a photoactive dye.

[00:00:21]It means that it gets excited when it's exposed to certain wavelengths of light.

[00:00:27]And so, this can have effect on killing cancer cells and different kinds of bacteria.