Drag the slider to the left to see how an animal would see the same scene. Whereas human eyes contain three types of colour-detecting cells, called cones, dogs have just two. Their cone cells are ...

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye ...

The human retina contains approximately 125 million rod cells and six million cone cells. In diseases like ... been implicated in other more pervasive eye diseases, like AMD and cataracts.

They are far more sensitive to light than cone cells, which is why you can sometimes see stars out of the corner of your eye at night, but when you look straight at them they seem to disappear. 5.

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes ... nerve cells than anywhere else in the body. The retina is home to two different kinds of light receptor cells—rods and cones.

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye disorder. But more work is needed to translate the treatment to people.

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes ... nerve cells than anywhere else in the body. The retina is home to two different kinds of light receptor cells—rods and cones.