light-sensing

• “However, the sun is actually so bright that if you look at it please don't try all the light-sensing cells in your retina are immediately overloaded.”

  The Guardian: Weatherwatch: What colour is the sun?

• “Their technique involves introducing light-sensing molecules, or "photoswitches," into retinas that have lost photoreceptor cells.”

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• “Zinc is an essential component of many enzymes, including those producing light-sensing retinal from vitamin A.”

  What foods, minerals, vitamins, and fatty acids help your eyes?

• “To take a common example, our eyes are complex structures, but we can observe light-sensing structures in other creatures that are at various stages of the evolutionary history of the eye.”

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• “Researchers created hybrid proteins by fusing the gene for a light-sensing pigment normally found in the eye to the genes for various members of a family of receptor proteins.”

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• “Growing a mixed 'lawn' of two kinds of nanowires can make a new kind of light-sensing array that could be made in metre-scale sheets.”

  OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors

• “VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Growing a mixed "lawn" of two kinds of nanowires can make a new kind of light-sensing array that could be made in metre-scale sheets.”

  OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors

• “Because of the way the light-sensing cones in the retina and the neurons in the brain process light and space, the best vision any human can have is 20/10.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Being Beautiful

• “The condition treated, wet age-related macular degeneration, is an eye disease characterized by abnormal blood vessels that form under the retina, the light-sensing part of the eye.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Panel Backs Covering Eye Treatment in U.K.

• “However, the actual eyes that the gene forms are not a result of common ancestry – their shared ancestor most likely lacked eyes, although it may have had light-sensing ability.”

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