Mount Sinai researcher finds unexpected temperature sensation for a light detector

Saturday, March 12, 2011 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space

New research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine has discovered that rhodopsin, a pigment of the retina that is responsible for the first events in the perception of light, may also be involved in temperature sensation. This detection had not been revealed in previous studies...

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