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Published online 21 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010524-5

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Blind mice see

New photoreceptor throws light on hidden workings of the eye.

There's more to vision than meets the eye. Although unable to see, mice lacking rods and cones in their retinas can tell day from night.

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