For the first time, an international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has recorded a tiny mechanical “twitch” in living human and rodent eyes at the exact moment a rod photoreceptor detects light.
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Team captures first-ever 'twitch' of the eye's night-vision cells as they detect light
January 7, 2026
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