Shy Photoreceptor Teams Up With Its Partner to Switch On Plant Growth in the Cold
Transgenic phytochrome D stabilizes the phytochrome B photoreceptor in red light, boosting seedling photomorphogenesis and gene expression at low but ...
Tag: photoreceptors
Retina’s Electrical Wiring Under Attack: New Study Reveals How Connexin 36 Degrades Under Stress
New research reveals how the gap junction protein connexin 36 is degraded in photoreceptor cells under excitotoxic stress, implicating autophagic, ...
How the Four-Eyed Fish Rebuilt Its Retina to See in Air and Water at Once
Researchers have shown that the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps evolved its aerial vision through developmental expansion of the ventral retina ...
Lab-Grown Retinas Mirror the Real Thing, but Their Metabolism Lags Behind
A new metabolomic study shows that mouse retinal organoids share 148 of 166 detected metabolites with native retina, yet reveal ...
Genetic Switch That Gave Butterflies Extra Color Vision Revealed
UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how the ...
Gene Therapy With Goggles Lets Blind Patients See Objects, Five-Year Study Shows
A five-year clinical cohort study shows that an optogenetic therapy combining gene injection and light-stimulating goggles is safe and enabled ...
Female Mice Pay a Heavier Price: Sex Hormones Speed Retinal Degeneration
New research shows that female mice lacking the protein quality-control gene Herc3 suffer faster retinal thinning, greater inflammatory activation, and ...
Engineered AAV Capsid Reaches the Outer Retina Through a Simple Eye Injection
Researchers used directed evolution to create AAV5-AlyT, an adeno-associated virus variant that delivers genes efficiently to photoreceptors after minimally invasive ...
RNA Methylation Enzyme METTL16 Emerges as Guardian of Rod Photoreceptor Survival
New research shows that the RNA methyltransferase METTL16 protects rod photoreceptors by safeguarding splicing fidelity, mRNA stability, and translation, and ...
Light-Sensitive Genes Offer New Hope for Restoring Vision in Blind Patients
A new Gene Therapy review charts how mutation-agnostic optogenetic gene therapy could restore vision in blind patients, while detailing the ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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