The newly discovered cells are shaped like twisted tree branches and were found deep inside the retina of a rat's eye. Like the eye's rods and cones, the new cells contain chemicals that react to ...

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The retina in the eye has approximately 120 million rods (cells sensitive to low light) and 6 million cones (cells that provide colour vision). More than 50% of our brains are devoted to ...

“For about 150 years, our understanding of the brain was dependent upon the traditional view of how light is handled in the eye,” said Berson. “Our previous understanding was that only two kinds of ...

Researchers observed light response in four out of four cones in mice that were 3.5 weeks old as well as 7 of 10 cones in mice that were 6 weeks old and 1 out of 3 cones at 9 weeks old.