Cells called astrocytes are about as abundant in the brain as neurons, but scientists have spent much less time figuring out ...

In a scientific first, researchers from Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Diego, have generated a ...

Investigators led by Francesca Elizabeth Duncan, Ph.D., the Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Reproductive Science, ...

Introduction Though only a few classes of light-sensitive cells capture the retinal image in the primate eye, evolution has produced many more classes of retinal ganglion cell (RGC), on the order of ...

The vision system of primates could process colorful scenes very efficiently. This is because, in biological retina, there are three types of cone cells and several types of ganglion cells that ...

Researchers discover how opsin 3, a light-sensitive brain protein, regulates food consumption in mice Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the ...

Using adaptive optics, scientists have identified elusive retinal ganglion cells in the eye's fovea that could explain how humans see red, green, blue, and yellow.

Figure 1. Cells chosen for stimulation. The cell circled in red marks the targeted cell. The averaged fluorescence traces for each cell show the integrated intensity over the cell’s soma. The red ...

Monitoring rates of ganglion cell/inner plexiform layer and circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thinning may help determine glaucoma progression in eyes with suspected glaucoma, according to ...

Researchers induced non-neural cells that mimic ganglion cells in the eyes of mice, effectively reducing the impact of certain eye diseases. They hope to next replicate their technique in humans in ...

A small group of retinal cells, known as OFF ganglion cells, can detect small dips in light levels and appear to be responsible for shadow detection.

Retinal prostheses aim to improve visual perception in patients blinded by photoreceptor degeneration. However, shape and letter perception with these devices is currently limited due to low spatial ...