After taking a neuroscience or biology course, most students have heard about rods and cones. But what about the recently discovered third class of photoreceptor cells in the retina - intrinsically ...

Researchers have discovered a way to revitalize cone receptors that have deteriorated as a result of retinitis pigmentosa. Working with animal models, researchers have discovered that replenishing ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing ...

Scientists have long believed that the eye uses the retina’s rod cells for vision at night and cone cells to see during the day. New research at The Ohio State University Medical Center, however, ...

Light-sensitive cells in the retina come in two main types: rods and cones. Rods are used for vision at low light and cones for color and bright light. A study in the September issue of the Journal of ...

Both image photodetector arrays and retinas are pixelated sensors that dynamically extract various features from the visual ...