(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers in Belgium has found that people exposed to orange light exhibit greater brain activity than those exposed to blue light. In their paper published in Proceedings ...

Thanks to the rod and cone cells in our eyes, our brains can use light to build images. Recent studies identified a third type of cell that responds to light and dark. Three research groups have now ...

Better known as the light sensor that sets the body's biological clock, melanopsin also plays an important role in vision: Via its messengers-so-called melanopsin-expressing retinal ganglion cells, or ...

Melanopsin, a blue photoreceptor in retinal cells, receives blue light each morning and transmits the signal via the nerves of the eye to the SCN, the circadian rhythm central pacemaker. The photo ...

Light strongly influences human physiology and notably sleep regulation. Scientists have just published a detailed study on the role of melanopsin, a molecule involved in mediating the effects of ...

LA JOLLA, CA-Better known as the light sensor that sets the body's biological clock, melanopsin also plays an important role in vision: Via its messengers-so-called melanopsin-expressing retinal ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 46 (November 14, 2017), pp. 12291-12296 (6 pages) The photopigment melanopsin supports reflexive visual ...

Back in May 2016, I compered the first Pint of Science event ever to be held by the University of Surrey. That evening we heard from Dr Nayantara Santhi from the Surrey Sleep Research Centre. Her work ...

DNA aptamers of melanopsin that regulate the clock hands of biological rhythms were developed by the Toyohashi University of Technology and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

For the last few years, general scientific consensus has suggested the blue light spectrum coming out of our modern devices can significantly disrupt our circadian rhythms. To balance this, many ...

At top left, an X-gal stained retina from a mouse heterozygous for a LacZ knockin at the melanopsin locus reveals axons coursing toward the optic disc. At top right, a melanopsin antibody labels cell ...