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 cells in the retina that produce the visual experience are rods and cones. Rods are active in dim light and cones in daylight. Mutations in rods that cause them to die trigger most inherited ...

New UCLA research in mice suggests that "dormant" cone photoreceptors in the degenerating retina are not dormant at all, but continue to function, producing responses to light and driving retinal ...

SPLIT SPECTRUM: When a rainbow of white light enters the retina, funnel-shape Müller cells guide the beam through layers of cells and cellular processes to the photoreceptors (rods and cones). Müller ...

The research team, led by Kapil Bharti, looked at cell morphometry (their size and dimension), hoping to gain insight into the varied spectrum of retinal disease phenotypes. The RPE is a single layer ...

Our retina has about 100 million specialized rod-shaped cells that solely function in low-energy situations and deliver their sensations in grayscale alone. It’s the less-sensitive cones ...

Color vision comes from comparing the responses of the three types of cone cells, which isn't possible in rod-dominated vision. So, in the dark, we can't distinguish colors well.