When light enters your eyes, it is absorbed by special cells called photoreceptors in your retina. There are two types of photoreceptors: rods, which are sensitive to light and dark, and cones ...

W orking with mammalian retinal cells, neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine have shown that unlike most light-sensing cells (photoreceptors) in the retina, one special type uses two different ...

Previously, Wang was a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscience at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida, where he joined the lab of Kirill Martemyanov to study the molecular mechanisms that govern the ...

I joined Dr. Kirill Martemyanov’s lab at Scripps Florida in 2015 to study the molecular mechanisms that govern the selective wiring of two types of photoreceptors: rods and cones, which are the ...

The Scientist: How can too much sunlight damage the eye? Ralph Chou: Light comes into the eye and goes through all the various layers of cells until it reaches the photoreceptors—essentially, the ...

The results are consistent with the notion that a primitive retina (similar to that of hagfish) contained ciliary photoreceptors ... even more ancient vertebrate-type eye remain in existence?