Vision begins in the retina at the rod and cone photoreceptors, which are sensory neurons with specialized visual pigments for capturing light quanta. Most mammals have one type of rod and two types ...

Nearly a century after insulin was discovered, an international team of researchers including University of Utah Health scientists report that they have developed the world's smallest, fully ...

Rod cells help us see in dim or dark light, and cone cells help us see bright light and color. The research team was interested in how other genes that are active in the developing retina can act to ...

Figure 2: Expression of Trβ2 in eye development. Figure 3: Absence of M-cones and altered distribution of S-cones from Trβ2-deficient mice. Figure 4: Loss of M-opsin mRNA and premature expression of S ...