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LESSON 2 · Sleep Like Your Life Depends On It

PAUSE TO THINK

Do blind people still have a working body clock?

Many do

A set of retinal cells called ipRGCs carry a pigment named melanopsin. They feed light signals straight to the suprachiasmatic nucleus to set the clock, separate from the cells that build the images you see.

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