Professor Yuki SUDO of Okayama University seeks an innovative form of treatment using rhodopsin, a protein with light-reactive qualities. By extracting it and artificially inserting it into ...

Light is a powerful source of energy that is used for various biological purposes. Some organisms harness light to produce ATP, the energy currency of cells, while others use light to interpret ...

Blocking the Rpn11 enzyme confirmed this hypothesis ... For instance, misfolded rhodopsin causes retinitis pigmentosa, a ...

First, they succeeded in finding a suitable rhodopsin and modifying it in such ... be used effectively as an optogenetic ...