How to pronounce “photoreceptor” in English

So those photoreceptors we discovered are actually maximally sensitive to blue light.

As soon as it hits the photoreceptors, as soon as it hits the chemoreceptor in your nose, or in your ear, another hair cell just like this one,

This really is the sort of progressive and sort of slow death of photoreceptor cells.

We look at it within smells and all these other things that do-- as soon as it hits the photoreceptor, as soon as it hits the chemoreceptor in your nose,

In the same way, you can take monkeys and engineer a new color photoreceptor so that the monkeys now have color vision like we do.

So if you have what's called age related macular degeneration, then you're photoreceptor cells degenerate over time on the retina.

And these are the rods and cones, the visual cells or the photoreceptors, which allow us to make an image of our world.

The other one would be retinitis pigmentosa, which is actually a heritable condition where people also progressively lose their photoreceptors.