Francesca Frentiu, from the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues used epimicrospectrophotometry and gene sequencing to show that the photopigment opsin gene in the butterfly genus ...

Recent technological and theoretical efforts have revolutionized the study of avian vision so that we now can use genetic sequencing of the opsin genes involved in avian color vision to ...

It’s an ideal candidate for gene therapy, but a lack of appropriate disease models presented a problem. “Non-human primates share almost identical L- and M- opsin gene sequences,” explains ...

"A synthetic opsin restores vision in patients with severe retinal degeneration," in Molecular Therapy, the flagship journal of the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy. The publication of ...