14 February 2024
Lights Down Low
Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy reveals the location of single molecules of rhodopsin – the low light-sensing protein of the retina's photoreceptor cells called rods – and how they traffic through the membranes of the rod cells maintaining their health
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- Image from work by Kristen N. Haggerty and Shannon C. Eshelman, and colleagues
- Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in PLOS Biology, January 2024
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