As you age, your eyes take longer to adjust to the dark, making night driving and low-light situations harder. Here's why and ...

A team of Brown University researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in ...

The science behind the colours of a rainbow is a reminder of the wonders of the original quantum designer In the fifth ...

The cells in the retina contain rods and cones that help organize the ... pigmentosa will most likely experience loss of night vision and decreased visual field. As the disease progresses, the ...

At home in the backyard pool one night, she looked up and started ... Over time, the light-sensing cells—the rods and cones—die off, causing their vision to disappear. Working with the dogs ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models ... of the photoreceptors (rods and cones) or the retinal pigment epithelium ...

and cone-rod dystrophy (CRD). Part of the latest financing will be used to start a phase 1/2 study of the candidate for dry AMD, a leading cause of irreversible vision loss in people over 60 with ...

Rod cells, or photoreceptors that respond best to dim light, are located mostly in the periphery of the retina. Cone cells ... spot in the center of your vision at night. Have you ever looked ...

Sharpness of vision typically is not affect ... color with a specific type of photoreceptor cell in the retina called a cone. (Photoreceptors are the cells that detect light; rods are the other type ...

He noted progressive blurring of vision, trouble with night vision, trouble adjusting from bright ... ERG showed severe widespread cone and rod dysfunction in both eyes (Supplementary Figure 2). He ...