How to Use photoreceptor in a Sentence

photoreceptor

noun

• Might have something to do with the way the photoreceptors in the eye work.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 May 2018
• These photoreceptors are located in the retina, a thin layer in the back of the eye.
  — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2019
• If it's degraded... the photoreceptors in the back of the eye could be lost forever.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
• When light enters the eye, it is captured by photoreceptor cells.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2021
• Due to a lack of nutrients, the photoreceptor cells die, leading to blindness.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Located at the back of the retina, photoreceptors convert light into signals that are sent to the brain.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• The tiny chip sits behind the retina, the part of the eye that contains the photoreceptor cells that respond to the light of the world by triggering electric pulses in other cells.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2015
• Vision starts with photoreceptors, cells in the eye that take in light and convert it to electrical signals.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• The nanoparticles bound to the photoreceptors of the mice's eyes and provided night vision for up to 10 weeks without any ill effects.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2019
• Basically, photoreceptors in the eye take two main forms, rods and cones.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
• There are two main types of photoreceptor cells—rods and cones—which convert light into stimuli the body can respond to and understand.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• Eventually, though, even the eye's rod photoreceptors used to perceive dim light went away, and the mole was left completely blind.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Jan. 2025
• The high number of photoreceptors means the lenses require less power and less light to transmit images.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2020
• Human eyes rely on three types of photoreceptors to detect color: red, green and blue.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• That makes sense, because the photoreceptors in our eyes, which are called cones and rods, only detect light between these frequencies.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 17 Feb. 2023
• The lack of nutrients in the eye ultimately causes light-sensing photoreceptor cells in the eye to die, leading to blindness.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• This feature is what allows nutrients from the bloodstream to access the retinal membrane and the eye’s photoreceptor cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• The researchers found that the resulting device mimicked the characteristics of the rod-cell photoreceptors found in the retina.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• Studies have shown that light-sensing photoreceptors in the eye help to set the body’s circadian clocks, which play a role in regulating sleep, appetite, and much else.
  — Time, 26 Aug. 2019
• The patient in the study was diagnosed at age 18 with an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes the photoreceptor cells to die.
  — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Oakley and his colleagues found that in all nine of those cases, many of the molecular components of the photoreceptor cells, pigment cells and lens cells had previous roles in the stress response to light.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
• Vertebrae animals, like humans, require two types of photoreceptor cells to see, known as rods and cones.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2019
• Then the mole lost functional genes for cone photoreceptors, which are involved in perceiving bright light and color vision.
  — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Jan. 2025
• Animals use eyes — a complex organ of lenses and photoreceptors — to gain a detailed picture of the world around them, including the direction of light.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Dr. Levy was fascinated by a class of photoreceptors known as cryptochromes.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 June 2016
• Combining the top two lenses gives us an extra photoreceptor cone.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2017
• Doctors from the Retina Foundation of the Southwest will perform the procedure, and attempt to transfer the job duties of photoreceptor cells to different cells in the eye to restore sight.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2016
• That’s likely because these creatures lack several key photoreceptor genes, the study found.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2019
• In contrast, the photoreceptors in the retina are passive devices that convert incoming light into electrical signals that are then sent to the brain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• When the blue light hits the molecule retinal, the retinal in turn generates poisonous molecules that kill the very important photoreceptor cells.
  — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018