The paper V. Busskamp et al., “miRNAs 182 and 183 are necessary to maintain adult cone photoreceptor outer segments and visual function,” Neuron, 83:586-600, 2014. The background In retinal ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns known as the "cone mosaic." Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science ...

(Left panels) Cone mosaic pattern in adult zebrafish showing a lattice-like regular arrangement of four cone cell types. (Right panels) Cone mosaic pattern in fish lacking the Dscamb gene on either or ...

Technology used by UC Berkeley researchers to see a new color may allow for development of new ways to see and research eye diseases. The machine, dubbed Oz, was previously used to shoot lasers into ...

Evolution mostly involves small, gradual changes, and for good reason – we might expect that large changes to an animal’s genetic code, and therefore to its body plan, simply wouldn’t work. It would ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 37 (Sep. 13, 2005), pp. 13313-13318 (6 pages) Retinal bipolar cells are known to form a complex, ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

You may know someone who can’t tell the difference between specific colors — and there is a scientific reason it could be happening. The condition is known as color blindness. To share a better ...

In a study published in Developmental Cell, researchers led by Prof. HUANG Xun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated the role of ...