People left blind by retinal degeneration have one option: electronic eye implants. Neuroscientists have now developed an alternative: gene therapy that, in tests, restored vision in blind mice. A ...

BOSTON, MA (Nov. 01, 2022) SIONYX, a leader in color digital night vision technology, brings innovation to the market with the introduction of OPSIN DNVM1, a helmet-mounted, color digital night vision ...

Biological Bulletin, Vol. 233, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: New insights from Genetic Data Sets on the Function and evolution of Visual Systems (August 2017), pp. 58-69 (12 pages) Visual pigments, each ...

Fish visual systems represent a remarkable panorama of evolutionary innovation, underpinned by a diverse array of visual pigments and opsin genes. These pigments, central to photoreception, enable ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat less, raising new questions about the mechanisms involved in regulating ...

Opsins, the light-sensitive proteins key to vision, may have evolved earlier and undergone fewer genetic changes than previously believed, according to a new study from the National University of ...

Squids, octopuses, cuttlefish, amphibians, and chameleon lizards are among the animals that can change the color of their skin in a blink of an eye. They have photoreceptors in their skin that operate ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bats represent one of the largest and most striking nocturnal mammalian radiations, exhibiting many visual system specializations for ...

Researchers have found that opsin 3 -- a protein closely related to rhodopsin, the protein that enables low-light vision -- has a role in adjusting the amount of pigment produced in human skin, a ...