Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain ...

New research shows that retinal neurons can rewire to preserve vision in retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disease causing blindness.

UCLA scientists found that in early retinitis pigmentosa, rod bipolar cells in mice rewire to connect with cones, preserving ...

Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain's visual system: one that's responsible for ...

Night blindness is caused by vitamin A deficiency, congenital mutations, and other eye diseases. Learn about symptoms, causes ...

Our retinas contain certain photoreceptive cells, known as cones, that allow us to see color. There are three cone types that correspond to different wavelengths of light: short-wavelength (S ...

Normal vision involves all three cone cells in the retina — S, L, and M, which are respectively sensitive to blue, red and green — and the three types' functions overlap.

The researchers' study said that in normal vision, "any light that stimulates an M cone cell must also stimulate its neighboring L and/or S cones" because its function overlaps with them.

Specifically, the laser stimulated retinal M cone cells, a type of cell in our eyes that allows us to see the color green (whereas S cone cells allow us to see the color blue and L cone cells ...

Scientists at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered that certain retinal cells can rewire ...

Stimulating just a single cone cell doesn’t create any perceivable color, so Oz goes a step further and rapidly moves its laser in a zig-zag pattern across a predetermined patch of cells.