In a new study published in Cell Death & Disease, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan found functional ...

High-tech camera system makes it possible for humans to see colors in the way animals do, adding vivid new perspective to the ...

Red cone photoreceptor cell arrangement: (Left) In wild-type retinas, red cones extend multiple filopodia toward neighboring cells, but these filopodia stop growing when they encounter other red cones ...

According to the data considered by its authors—a team from the University of Sussex (UK) and Lund University ...

For the first time, an international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has recorded a tiny mechanical "twitch" in living human and rodent eyes at the ...

A team of scientists has revealed a previously unknown type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae, an unexpected finding that reshapes more than 150 years of scientific thinking about vertebrate ...

Inside the human eye, the retina is made up of several types of cells, including the light-sensing photoreceptors that initiate the cascade of events that lead to vision. Damage to the photoreceptors, ...