Hold your finger a few inches from your eyes, focus on it for three seconds, then shift your focus to a distant object about ...

We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red, green, and blue, while dimness or brightness is detected by photoreceptor rods. Many non-mammalian ...

A type of pineal photoreceptor cell that contains a protein called parapinopsin 1 (PP1) detects color. These PP1 cells become active and inactive in proportion to the difference in wavelength of ...

Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a group of monogenic disorders caused by mutations in more than 280 genes, and are characterized by progressive degeneration of photoreceptor cells in the retina.

Researchers uncovered how zebrafish detect colors using photoreceptor cells in the pineal gland. The protein parapinopsin 1 (PP1) is inactivated by arrestin proteins Sagb and Arr3a, which switch roles ...

This disrupts normal cell metabolism, leading to the death of photoreceptor cells and, eventually, geographic atrophy, which causes irreversible vision loss. Wet macular degeneration accounts for ...

Two new compounds may be able to treat retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. The compounds were identified using a virtual screening approach.

The companies will work together by using the codon-optimized BBS1 AAV9 vector to minimize the vision loss caused by the ...

Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc.’s LCTX share price has surged by 14.78%, which has investors questioning if this is right time to sell.