BBSRC | The Eye Regulates Your #BodyClock | Why #Chromosome 10 is Crucial for Our #BiologicalClock @bbsrcmedia | Uploaded December 2013 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
In this fascinating video, BBSRC-funded researcher Professor Russell Foster, head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, shares his passion for chromosome 10, which encodes for the special light receptors in the eye that regulate our body's biological clock.

Produced by the Royal Institution as part of their Ri Advent Calendar series on chromosomes, supported by BBSRC, Professor Foster explains how his team discovered the pigment melanopsin in these receptors, which allows us to detect changes in daylength and regulate our daily rhythms.

Discover how this important mechanism affects everything from our moods to when we eat and how we sleep.


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