BOSTON, MA (Nov. 01, 2022) SIONYX, a leader in color digital night vision technology, brings innovation to the market with the introduction of OPSIN DNVM1, a helmet-mounted, color digital night vision ...
Biological Bulletin, Vol. 233, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: New insights from Genetic Data Sets on the Function and evolution of Visual Systems (August 2017), pp. 58-69 (12 pages) Visual pigments, each ...
Scientists found that adult bristleworm eyes grow continuously thanks to a rim of neural stem cells similar to those in ...
Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, amphibians, and chameleon lizards are among the animals that can change the color of their skin in a blink of an eye. They have photoreceptors in their skin that operate ...
Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat less, raising new questions about the mechanisms involved in regulating ...
Opsins, the light-sensitive proteins key to vision, may have evolved earlier and undergone fewer genetic changes than previously believed, according to a new study from the National University of ...
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of vision loss in ...
Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. “Evolution does not produce novelties from scratch. It works with what already exists,” wrote Nobel laureate François Jacob in 1977, and biologists continue ...
Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, amphibians, and chameleon lizards are among the animals that can change the color of their skin in a blink of an eye. They have photoreceptors in their skin that operate ...