A new study in Nature finds that the retinal pathway transducing lighting information to the circadian clock is anatomically wholly independent of the visual pathways.
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Van Gelder, R. How the clock sees the light. Nat Neurosci 11, 628–630 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0608-628
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0608-628