Vascularized retinal organoids engineered with functional light-signal pathways

Until now, it has been difficult to maintain retinal ganglion cells deep inside organoids over extended periods. The supply ...
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Visual pigment–deficient cones survive and mediate visual signaling despite the lack of outer segments

Rhodopsin and cone opsins are essential for light detection in vertebrate rods and cones, respectively. It is well established that rhodopsin is required for rod phototransduction, outer segment disk ...
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A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objects

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, ...
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Study: Babies’ poor vision may help organize visual brain pathways

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Incoming information from the retina is channeled into two pathways in the brain’s visual system: one that’s responsible for processing color and fine spatial detail, and another that ...