Life Ascending claims that the neurons out in front may act as a “‘waveguide’” to funnel photons more efficiently to the light-sensitive bits.
This topic is treated in much more depth in Live Cells as Optical Fibers in the Vertebrate Retina, which I read as marveling at how the darn thing works at all.
Life Ascending claims that the neurons out in front may act as a “‘waveguide’” to funnel photons more efficiently to the light-sensitive bits.
This topic is treated in much more depth in Live Cells as Optical Fibers in the Vertebrate Retina, which I read as marveling at how the darn thing works at all.