Prior to 2002, the scientific community had only known about two types of photoreceptor cells in the retina - rods and cones - that specialize in converting light energy into electrical signals that ...

Using transgenic mice without functional cones, the investigators first measured rod-driven signals and could reliably detect them both in the retina and in the brain even at high light levels.

The eye has two kinds of photoreceptors that convert light into electrical activity: rods and cones. It is necessary to “divide the labor” between two cell types to enable the eye to see over ...

In the inner plexiform layer, the bipolar cells (cells that take information from cones and rods to pass onto other cells) pass information to the ganglion cells. Inner nuclear layer.

Rods and cones studding the retina can work in tandem to give an animal good vision in a wide variety of light conditions. Some species that live in dark environments, like many deep-sea fish ...

There’s a relay race in your eye that allows you to see. It begins when light hits the rod and cone cells in your retina, triggering a cascade of electrical signals. These pass through other ...