Vision begins in the retina at the rod and cone photoreceptors, which are sensory neurons with specialized visual pigments for capturing light quanta. Most mammals have one type of rod and two types ...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) signaling promote the pathology of many human diseases. Loss-of-function variants of the UPR regulator Activating Transcription ...

Early mammals evolved in a burst during the Jurassic period, adapting a nocturnal lifestyle when dinosaurs were the dominant daytime predator. How these early mammals evolved night vision to find food ...