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.

Weatherwatch: What colour is the sun? 2011

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

And Tomorrow's Winners Will Be... Chris Gay 2010

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.

Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists. 2007

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.

Hooked On Light – Could Reveal The Biochemistry Of Addiction | Impact Lab 2009

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? 2009

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.

You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

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.

You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008

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.

Panel Backs Covering Eye Treatment in U.K. 2008

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 2008

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Nanowire lawns make for sheets of image sensors 2008