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and those marking a major milestone (fellowship completion

and medical students who have just spent a hard rotation memorising foramina and their contents

and the classification of every newly described species

photoreceptor necklace | silver pp_DNA the way most scientists picturePhotoreceptor necklace sterling silver The photoreceptor is the cell that turns a photon into a signal. Two types do most of the work in the human eye: rods, which see in the dark, and cones, which see in colour. Everything we know visually has been through one of them first. The Science of the Photoreceptor The human retina contains about 120 million rods and 6 million cones. Rods carry rhodopsin and respond to single photons under dark adapted