These sections come from an area on the top of the dragonfly’s eye called the functional fovea, where the ommatidia are larger and almost parallel to each other; in the rest of the compound eye, the ...

More importantly, the study revealed that tiny drift eye movements are precisely synchronized with the structure of the fovea. "The drift movements repeatedly brought visual stimuli into the ...

BCM is caused by an absence of L- and M- opsins in the fovea of the eye. It’s an ideal candidate for gene therapy, but a lack of appropriate disease models presented a problem. “Non-human ...