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Florida researchers use tadpoles to photograph protein

Researchers at the University of Florida have obtained the first photographicproof that a protein crucial to vision moves inside the eye cells in responseto light. With the assistance of tadpoles, the discovery may help explainhow people and animals can see in various conditions.

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