Research in Focus is a series that highlights Neurobiology faculty members’ papers in peer-reviewed journals. A study led by Alecia K. Gross, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for Research and Research ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 8 (February 25, 2020), pp. 4400-4410 (11 pages) Rod and cone photoreceptor outer segment (OS) structural ...
Researchers have discovered that power-producing organelles in the eye's photoreceptor cells, called mitochondria, function as microlenses that help channel light to these cells' outer segments where ...