The key retina parts include the rods and cones, which convert light into electrical signals for the brain, and the macula, which allows you to see details clearly.

Scientists have long believed that the eye uses the retina’s rod cells for vision at night and cone cells to see during the day.

In the retina, the cells responsible for the visual experience are rods and cones. These cells are called photoreceptors and they absorb and convert light into electric signals.

The image on the left shows the smallest cones at the center of the retina, (the fovea). Whenever we direct our gaze at something, for example to read, the image of what we are looking at is ...

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 ...

Furthermore, they were subsequently able to show this bright-light rod contribution in mice with fully functional cones as well. With this new data, it seemed obvious that the models used by most ...

Caption A: Zebrafish retinas at 3 days-post-fertilization (dpf). The neural retina consists of six major classes of neurons including two types of photoreceptors, rods and cones.

Cone-rod dystrophy is a group of IRDs that damage cones and rods. Vision loss gets worse over time. Between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 40,000 people have cone-rod dystrophy.

Differential composition of DHA and very-long-chain PUFAs in rod and cone photoreceptors. Journal of Lipid Research, 2018; 59 (9): 1586 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M082495 ...