Sentences with phrase «like photoreceptor»

Detlev Arendt and Joachim Wittbrodt, developmental biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, jumped into the fray after Arendt noticed some vertebrate - like photoreceptor cells in the brains of ragworms, a marine species that hasn't changed much for 500 million years.

Instead of catching light on film, digital cameras use an array of light - sensitive photodiodes that function much like the photoreceptors in an eye.

We have identified over 1.2 million previously unknown genes represented in these samples, including more than 782 new rhodopsin - like photoreceptors.

The treatment makes these ganglion cells act like photoreceptors, responding to patterns of light that pass through the retina and converting them into patterns of electricity that go directly to the brain.

Not exact matches

Right now scientists can only speculate what it might be like to wear an artificial retina with millions of photoreceptors in a regular grid, but such a device would not restore the experience of vision — no matter how many electrodes it contains.

Like many animals, humans have three kinds of photoreceptors in their eyes, each sensitive to a different colour.

«Eventually, we would like to be able to provide implants at an earlier stage to prevent patients from losing photoreceptors in the first place.»

THERE are photoreceptors in your skin like those in your eye, allowing your body covering to mount a swift defence against damaging ultraviolet radiation.

Genetic diseases like retinitis pigmentosa destroy the photosensitive cells of the eye, the photoreceptors, but often leave intact the other cells in the retina: the bipolar cells that the photoreceptors normally talk to, and the ganglion cells that are the retina's output to the brain.

Human ES cells treated with Noggin, Dickkopf - 1, and Insulin - like Growth Factor - 1 proteins differentiate into functional photoreceptors [5].

A population of these cells forms a layer deep to the photoreceptors, where they contain intracellular pigment granules and appear superficially like an extra RPE layer, even though they do not express at least two characteristic RPE proteins.

Novel Role for the Innate Immune Receptor Toll - Like Receptor 4 (TLR4) in the Regulation of the Wnt Signaling Pathway and Photoreceptor Apoptosis.

Each piece in the exhibition provides only an oblique, tangential, narrow view, like a tiny robot equipped with only a single photoreceptor.

After you download the app and plug in the hub, you'll be prompted to hold your phone above it, and the LED flash on the iPhone will flicker out the details like a high - tech Aldis lamp, which is then picked up by a photoreceptor in the Hub.