Because the front of the eye is curved, it bends the light as it goes in, turning the image on the retina upside down. Inside the retina, there are millions of special sense receptors called rods ...

In patients with RP, rod photoreceptors die from a mutation, but it has not been known why cone photoreceptors die. After rods die ... in other more pervasive eye diseases, like AMD and cataracts.

It is here, in the layer of photoreceptors—cones and rods—that the process of vision ... changes occurring in the outer segments of the eye's photoreceptors. These molecular-level elongations are the ...

Turns out, dogs have fewer cone receptors than humans ... The reason lies within the eye. In the eye are light receptors called cones and rods. Cones help us distinguish different colors ...

There are two main types of light receptors called rods and cones ... different types of cone cells which produce colour vision. The amount of light entering the eye is controlled by a reflex ...

These photoreceptors come in two main types: rods, which function ... of the developing zebrafish eye. “Because DSCAM ...