Calcium sensor proteins play a crucial role in the functioning of photoreceptor cells, which are essential ... and have systems in place to gain human feedback on the overall quality of the ...

And we use essentially the eye, at least the human eye, like a camera. Instead of a film, you have a retina in the back, with photoreceptor cells, and this makes the eye a very fascinating organ.

Previously, the research group led by Professor Akihisa Terakita and Professor Mitsumasa Koyanagi of the Graduate School of Science revealed that the pineal organ of bony fish detects colors using a ...

"Some approaches use dissociated photoreceptor cells; others create micro-dissected ... that is already polarized and organized, as in the human embryonic retina." He adds that their method ...

They found that short-term functional recovery was detected despite cell engraftment in a confined targeted host retina region. The transplanted human photoreceptor progenitors expressed mature ...

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.

Nocturnal geckos have superb vision in dim light - their eyes are 350 times more sensitive to colour at night than a human's (see for yourself with ... The fish's retina has rods and cones, the ...

Two new compounds may be able to treat retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. The ...

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 ...