Biophysics Approach to the Eye

Alan Litke Stuff

• What Does the Eye Tell the Brain? - 2004
• Alan Litke's Retinal Readout Project
• From Eye to Sight - February, 2008
• A second chance at sight - February, 2014

General Articles on Vision

• A bizarre video of eyeballs illustrates our pupils shrink with age - July, 2024
• Shrimp-inspired nanoclusters enable multifunctional artificial vision systems - April, 2024
• Researchers Recreate a Nearsighted Eye - May, 2023
• Ultrafast imaging sheds light on the earliest stages of vision - May, 2023
• Artificial retina enables perception and encoding of mid-infrared radiation - May, 2023
• New research supports York professor's theory about visual attention - April, 2023
• Tadpoles undergo surprising number of vision changes when becoming frogs - June, 2022
• LOEN: Lensless opto-electronic neural network empowered machine vision - May, 2022
• Ultrasound beams activate neurons in the eye to help restore vision - March, 2022
• Jumping spiders' remarkable senses capture a world beyond our perception - October, 2021
• Sub-diffraction imaging of the human eye visualizes photoreceptors with unprecedented detail - March, 2021
• Tiny particles produce huge photon avalanches - January, 2021
  - Upconverting nanoparticles allow mice to see in infrared - March, 2019
• Near-IR nanosensors help blind mice see - August, 2020
• New multispectral curved compound eye camera developed with ultra-large field of view - June, 2020
• Artificial eye has the potential to outperform human vision - May, 2020
• Solitons from new fibre laser could improve eye surgery - May, 2020
• How do we see shades of colour? York U study shows how our brains calculate the difference - May, 2020
• Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder where the trabecular meshworks are - November, 2019
• System to image the human eye corrects for chromatic aberrations - August, 2019
• Simple 'smart' glass reveals the future of artificial vision - June, 2019
• Color vision found in fish that live in near darkness - May, 2019
• Biomaterials for corneal bioengineering - March, 2018
• Squid vision - September, 2017
• In vivo optical imaging of physiological responses to photostimulation in human photoreceptors - May, 2016
• An idea for allowing the human eye to observe an instance of entanglement - February, 2016
• Sugar-based Carbon Hollow Spheres that Mimic Moth Eyes - January, 2016
• Eye shape reveals whether animal is predator or prey - August, 2015
• Lobster-Eye imager detects soft X-ray emissions - July, 2015
• Bringing the human eye into focus - July, 2015
• Human color vision gives people the ability to see nanoscale differences - July, 2015
• Single-celled predator evolves tiny, human-like 'eye' - June, 2015
• Dragonfly colour vision - April, 2015
• Cockroach night-vision - December, 2014
• Mineralized rods and cones suggest colour vision in a 300 Myr-old fossil fish - December, 2014
• Scientists design an imaging system capable of obtaining 12 times more information than the human eye - October, 2014
• Inspired by compound eyes of common fly, team determines how to make miniature omnidirectional sources of light - September, 2014
• A prism in the eye - August, 2014
• The quantum eye - July, 2014
• Fiber optic light pipes in the retina do much more than simple image transfer - July, 2014
• Seeing Just One Photon, Frog eyes show prowess as quantum detectors - May, 2014
• Action at a distance in a light receptor - May, 2014
• Thermal vision: Graphene light detector first to span infrared spectrum - March, 2014
• Color vision tends to fade with age, study finds - March, 2014
• Mantis shrimp vision - February, 2014, Study finds mantis shrimp process vision differently than other organisms - January, 2014, and Mantis shrimp eye could improve high-definition DVDs, holographic technology - June, 2011
• Clearer Quantum Vision - January, 2014
• Cell biology: Recycling in sight - August, 2013
• Controllable single photon stimulation of retinal rod cells - August, 2013
• Method of targeted delivery of laser beam to isolated retinal rods by fiber optics - August, 2013
• Surgeons implant retinas made from silicon chips - August, 2013
• Recycling in the eye promotes good vision - July, 2013
• Measurement of Photon Statistics with Live Photoreceptor Cells - July, 2013
• Artificial insect eyes - May, 2013
• Effect of the hypomagnetic field on the size of the eye pupil - February, 2013
• Theory meets experiment in the blink of an eye - June, 2012
• Electrical processes provide the initial spark for eyesight - July, 2011
• Human eye protein senses Earth's magnetism - June, 2011
• Positive feedback boosts eye's ability to see - May, 2011
• Snapping the birthplace of the human eye - March, 2011
• Evolution: A changing eye on the world - March, 2011
• Vision science: Seeing without seeing - January, 2011
• Insect eyes inspire improved solar cells - January, 2011
• Neuroscience: Bright Eyed - May, 2010
• Eye Cells as Light Pipes - April, 2010
• The Artificial Silicon Retina in Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients (An American Ophthalmological Association Thesis) - December, 2010