Over the past decade, researchers at RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have generated complex tissues, including mouse retinas and Purkinje cells (a type of neuron) that integrated ...

the Purkinje effect makes reds appear darker and greens brighter. Typically, eyes have time to adjust to disappearing sunlight as evening gradually fades the light out. The eye’s rod cells (the ...

Researchers studying marmosets discovered that Purkinje cells in the cerebellum help regulate tongue movement by signaling when to stop as the tongue nears its target.