Raymond Minaya, 29, is facing a longer sentence in part due to a sharpened metal rod and cell phones found stashed in his jail cell.

The 3D mini eyes, known as organoids, were grown from stem cells generated from skin samples donated by patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). In a healthy eye, rod cells ...

In this research, published in Stem Cell Reports 1, the team found that they could get rod cells to organise themselves into layers that mimic their organisation in the retina, producing a ‘mini ...

Fish living in dim conditions can have as many as 28 layers of light-sensitive rod cells at the back of their eyes, known as a multibank retina. But exactly how this helps them to see in low light ...