Sentence examples for light receptor from inspiring English sources

CT scans use higher frequency radiation but with a light receptor on the other side of the patient, creating highly accurate slices of the body on film.

In others, though not organized as an eye, it functions as a light receptor.

The blue light receptor, cryptochrome, has been suggested to act as a magnetoreceptor based on the proposition that photochemical reactions are involved in sensing the geomagnetic field.

Hirose, Y., Shimada, T., Narikawa, R., Katayama, M. & Ikeuchi, M. Cyanobacteriochrome CcaS is the green light receptor that induces the expression of phycobilisome linker protein.

Phototropin is a blue light receptor in plants and is thought to be a light-regulated protein kinase.

The blue light receptor cryptochrome that could form radical pairs after exposure to blue light was suggested to be a magnetoreceptor based on the proposition that radical pairs were involved in the magnetoreception.

The negative gravitropism of Phycomyces can be modulated by tonic irradiation with near-UV, blue and also by red light which indicates the presence of a red-light receptor or a red-light absorbing intermediate of the blue-light receptor.

University of California, Berkeley, scientists inserted a gene for a green-light receptor into the eyes of blind mice and, a month later, they were navigating around obstacles as easily as mice with no vision problems.

New research from the labs of MCB Professors Ehud Isacoff & John Flannery reports that insertion of a gene for a green-light receptor into the eyes of blind mice led to signs of reversed retinal degeneration.

Expression of the blue-light receptor cryptochrome in the human retina.

Thus we have firmly established that Lmo0799 is a genuine blue-light receptor and a functional homologue of YtvA.