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Perfect vision but blind
Mammals have two types of light-sensitive organs in the retina. They are cone and rod cells, all needed to receive the image of the surrounding environment. However, res…
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Medicine - Health
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.
Medicine - Health
Scientists found a way to cure blindness with gene therapy
Blindness can be cured by using gene therapy to reprogram cells in the retina to make these cells possible.
Medicine - Health
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.