Using cryo-electron microscopy and mass spectrometry, researchers from PSI have deciphered the structure of an ion channel found in the eye while it interacts with the protein calmodulin—a structure ...

Rod cells -- one of three kinds of exquisitely photosensitive cells found in the retina of the eye -- are surprisingly found to be the only ones responsible for setting our internal "clocks" in low ...

Figure 1: Rod cell rescue in diltiazem-treated rd mice. Figure 3: Diltiazem-induced photoreceptor rescue in retinal sections of rd mice. Figure 5: ERGs after diltiazem treatment in rd mice and ...

New research reveals that the loss of a single ion channel, TRPM1, is enough to produce persistent rhythmic oscillations in ...

Research in Focus is a series that highlights Neurobiology faculty members’ papers in peer-reviewed journals. A study led by Alecia K. Gross, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for Research and Research ...

Investigators say studies pave the way to new transplantation therapies for degenerative eye diseases. Studies in mouse models of night blindness have demonstrated that vision can be restored by ...

Diltiazem was shown to slow down photoreceptor degeneration in the rd mouse, an animal model for retinitis pigmentosa 1. Rod cell numbers were quantified after cell labeling with the rho-4D2 antibody ...

The specialised retinas of some nocturnal coral fish result in faster vision and greater sensitivity to dim and bright light. The same adaptation may enable deep-sea animals to see in darkness. Fish ...

Brightly fluorescent quantum dots and quantum rods are quickly becoming important tools for identifying specific molecules and cells in living systems. Two new reports demonstrate some of the ways in ...

Scientists have discovered rod and cone cells while examining the fossil of 300-million-year-old fish eyes. The findings suggest that the fish likely possessed color vision. Scientists found fossil of ...

Let’s go fishing… for cancer cells. A tiny rod has been developed that reels in brain tumour cells and guides them out of the brain to their death. Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive type ...