Sentences with phrase «human photopigment»

In the new experiment, vision scientist Gerald Jacobs at the University of California, Santa Barbara, teamed up with geneticist Jeremy Nathans at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, and other colleagues to add a human photopigment gene to mice.

Mice given a human photopigment gene have better color discrimination than do their peers.

Not exact matches

To find out, the biologists developed a way to incorporate the gene for the human L - type photopigment into a small virus known as adeno - associated virus.

A few years ago scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine inserted the gene for the human L - type photopigment into mice.

The irradiance output in the range of 380 — 780 nm at 4 - nm intervals was converted to 1 - nm intervals for calculation of the human retinal photopigment illuminance measures (cyanopic, melanopic, rhodopic, chloropic, and erythropic lux)(35).