News tagged with color blindness

Color blindness cured in monkeys

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Florida used gene therapy to cure two squirrel monkeys of color blindness — the most common genetic disorder in people.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Seeing color traced back to genetic mutations

From the inside of our heads, it feels as if colors are intrinsic aspects of the outside world and our eyes are beautifully designed to see them. But we humans are merely sampling the possible ways of sensing the spectrum ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Social scientist creates computer model to determine human perception of hues

Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded broadcasters, Web designers and printers trying to reproduce lifelike hues.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0