Nervous System: News and Research on Sensory Receptor Cells

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How a membrane lipid tunes the eye's response to light

Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have determined how a molecule within cells can help tune the eyes' sensitivity to light. The study identified the molecule's binding site on a protein in retinal cells, which should enable ...

Hidden 'recycling system' helps keep vision cells healthy

For decades, scientists believed that photoreceptors in the retina relied primarily on neighboring support cells, known as the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), to remove waste. While the RPE is still responsible for clearing ...

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