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  "textContent": "For more than 150 years, vertebrate vision has been understood as a two-part system: rods for low-light conditions, and cones for bright light and color. That tidy division is now under the microscope, as researchers from the University of Queensland have discovered a new hybrid cell that breaks the rule: rod-shaped photoreceptors that run cone-specific genetic programs.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n**Category:** Biology, Science\n\n**Tags:** Vision, Fish, University of Queensland",
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