In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

Two kinds of cells in your retinas, called rods and cones, are the basis of human vision. Rods can’t detect color but are good at registering low levels of light (which is why the faint light ...

arrange themselves in patterns known as the “cone mosaic”. Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have discovered that a protein called Dscamb acts as a "self-avoidance ...

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 ...

This is because our retinas are covered with light-sensitive cells called rods and cones. In low lighting we rely on the rods to help us see, however rods do not detect colour so we therefore find ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. In the study, chemist Gengfeng Zheng of Fudan University in Shanghai and his colleagues replaced the rod and cone cells in blind mice’s eyes with prosthetic retinas ...