How to Use rhodopsin in a Sentence

rhodopsin

noun

• It was further determined that microbial rhodopsins could be expressed in other cell types.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026
• Red light does not interfere with rhodopsin, and while red flashlights are not commonly available, there are easy hacks to transform the color of an ordinary one.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
• That's because retinol is essential for producing rhodopsin, the pigment that allows your eyes to adjust to darkness and low-light conditions.
  — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2025
• This occurs as the retinal rods increase their sensitivity by regenerating rhodopsin, a light-sensitive pigment, over a period of time.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Your eyes do a remarkably good job of seeing in low-light conditions, thanks in part to what’s known as rhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein found in the retina of the eye—specifically in the rod cells, which are responsible for our ability to see at night.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 8 Aug. 2025
• The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Georg Nagel and Peter Hegemann for their discovery of rhodopsin and optogenetics, the ability to control cells using light and genetics.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026