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Featured Neuroscience

·September 11, 2017·5 min read

Measuring the Basis of Color Vision

A new study reports photoreceptors in the retina are sensitive to colors corresponding to their visual pigments.

Image shows rods and cones in the retina.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·June 20, 2016·5 min read

Testing The Theory of How Rods in the Retina Originated

A new study reports the retinas from our earliest vertebrate ancestors had cone like receptors, allowing them to see both in daylight and at night.

This image shows a flourescence microscopy image of the different eye cells created.

Featured Genetics

·June 1, 2015·3 min read

Growing Eyes From Stem Cells

Researchers have successfully developed a method which allows stem cells to spontaneously grow into human retina cells.

This image shows horizontal cells in the retina.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 19, 2014·2 min read

New Function for Rods in Daylight

Researchers identify a novel function for rod photoreceptors in the retina during daylight.

Featured Neuroscience

·October 20, 2012·3 min read

Researchers Clarify Process Controlling Night Vision

New research reveals the key chemical process that corrects for potential visual errors in low-light conditions. Understanding this fundamental step could lead to new treatments for visual deficits, or might one day boost normal night vision to new levels.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 25, 2012·4 min read

Chemical Makes Blind Mice See

A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and University of Washington, in Seattle, has discovered a chemical that temporarily restores some vision to blind mice, and is working on an improved compound that may someday allow people with degenerative blindness to see again.