Super Computer Models Decode Cells That See Light

"Researchers have found that the melanopsin pigment in the eye is potentially more sensitive to light than...rhodopsin, the pigment that allows for night vision," says Medical News Today. "For more than two years, the staff of the Laboratory for Computational Photochemistry and Photobiology (LCPP) at Ohio's Bowling Green State University (BGSU), have been investigating melanopsin, a retina pigment capable of sensing light changes in the environment, informing the nervous system and synchronizing it with the day/night rhythm. Most of the study's complex computations were carried out on powerful supercomputer clusters at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC)." Read more.