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Pigments make some people suffer from photophobia
The detection of melanopsin pigment in retinal cells plays a role in controlling the circadian rhythm as well as sending information to the visual cortex.
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New detection of vision
US scientists at Johns Hopkins University have discovered the more important role of a cell type in the retina is ipRGC - a type of atypical optical cells in the retina.
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Night lights affect people's mood
In the study of mice published in The Journal of Neuroscience, scientists found that blue light at night had an adverse impact on the mood of this animal, followed by wh…