The authors suggest that this 'eye' did not exhibit image-forming capabilities, and that its function was instead non-visual (possibly circadian). Comparison of photoreceptor ultrastructure across ...

Osaka Metropolitan University researchers have elucidated how a single photoreceptor in the pineal gland of zebrafish detects ...

Ralph Chou: Light comes into the eye and goes through all the various layers of cells until it reaches the photoreceptors—essentially, the bottom of a stack of cells. The photoreceptors themselves ...

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.

These photoreceptors consist of rods and cones. Rods allow the eye to sense light and see in ... an early age that she would pursue a career in art. She told the BBC that while painting a ...

Researchers have elucidated how a single photoreceptor in the pineal gland of zebrafish detects color. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red ...