For most, the time spent staring at screens -- on computers, phones, iPads -- constitutes many hours and can often disrupt sleep. Now, researchers have pinpointed how certain cells in the eye process ...

Better known as the light sensor that sets the body's biological clock, melanopsin also plays an important role in vision: Via its messengers-so-called melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells, or ...

Thanks to the rod and cone cells in our eyes, our brains can use light to build images. Recent studies identified a third type of cell that responds to light and dark. Three research groups have now ...

Melanopsin, a blue photoreceptor in retinal cells, receives blue light each morning and transmits the signal via the nerves of the eye to the SCN, the circadian rhythm central pacemaker. The photo ...

LA JOLLA, CA-Better known as the light sensor that sets the body's biological clock, melanopsin also plays an important role in vision: Via its messengers-so-called melanopsin-expressing retinal ...

Scientists have discovered that part of the eye's light-gathering machinery works in a previously unknown way to relay visual information to the brain. Experiments in mice have established that ...

Back in May 2016, I compered the first Pint of Science event ever to be held by the University of Surrey. That evening we heard from Dr Nayantara Santhi from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre. Her work ...

At top left, an X-gal stained retina from a mouse heterozygous for a LacZ knockin at the melanopsin locus reveals axons coursing toward the optic disc. At top right, a melanopsin antibody labels cell ...

Melanopsin responds most strongly to light around 480 nanometers, the same short-wavelength range that LED screens and bulbs ...

New study sheds light on the importance of light-sensing cells in the retina that process visual information and finds that melanopsin signals play a crucial role in the perception of the visual ...

DNA aptamers of melanopsin that regulate the clock hands of biological rhythms were developed by the Toyohashi University of Technology and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...