News tagged with light sensitive cells
The difference between eye cells is... sumo?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing nerve cells in the retina ...
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An 'eye catching' vision discovery
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Nearly all species have some ability to detect light. At least three types of cells in the retina allow us to see images or distinguish between night and day. Now, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of ...
Study examines the use of light in medical therapy
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A study published in a special issue of Photochemistry and Photobiology examines the emerging practice of drug delivery systems which use the application of light to activate medications in the body.
Merkel cells revealed as secret behind sensation of light touch
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Scientists have proved experimentally what has been suspected since the discovery of Merkel cells in the skin over a century ago: the sense of light touch that is critical for hand dexterity would not be possible without ...
Gene therapy restores vision to mice with retinal degeneration
Oct 16, 2008 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have used gene therapy to restore useful vision to mice with degeneration of the light-sensing retinal rods and cones, a common cause of human blindness. Their report, appearing ...
Bright lights, not-so-big pupils
Dec 31, 2008 |
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A team of Johns Hopkins neuroscientists has worked out how some newly discovered light sensors in the eye detect light and communicate with the brain. The report appears online this week in Nature.
A Good Eye for Oxygen
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- We cannot live without it; yet too much of it causes damage: oxygen is a critical component of many physiological and pathological processes in living cells. Oxygen deficiency in tissues is thus related to ...
Toward a nanomedicine for brain cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 09, 2009 |
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In an advance toward better treatments for the most serious form of brain cancer, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of the first nanoparticles that seek out and destroy brain cancer cells without ...
Cells in eye could help control sleep
Aug 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A set of nerve cells in the eye control our levels of sleepiness according to the brightness of our surroundings, Oxford University researchers have discovered. The cells directly regulate ...
Scientists explain why birds get sex on the brain in the Spring
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University researchers have discovered how birds sense the lengthening days of early Spring and time when they breed, solving a 70-year mystery.
Perfect Vision But Blind To Light
Biology /
Jun 11, 2008 |
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Mammals have two types of light-sensitive detectors in the retina. Known as rod and cone cells, they are both necessary to picture their environment. However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...
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