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Color Blindness News, Research and Latest Updates

Keep abreast with the latest news related to Color Blindness there are 13 news items on Color Blindness that covers updates, breakthroughs and in-depth reports.

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Color Blindness

Color blindness is a visual disorder of perceiving parts of the color spectrum. Color blindness test helps in planning coping strategies for the color blind.

Can Color Blindness Affect Learning?

Can Color Blindness Affect Learning?

School teachers, parents, and society should be educated about congenital color vision deficiency to improve their learning environment.

Contact Lens May Correct Color Blindness

Contact Lens May Correct Color Blindness

Modified contact lenses developed using gold nanoparticles overcome the challenges posed by dyed lenses and create a safer way to see colors.

Birds Use Color Vision To Find Good Food and Right Partner

Birds Use Color Vision To Find Good Food and Right Partner

Birds are able to maintain their colour constancy under greater changes in light in the laboratory than when experiencing those that occur in nature.

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Researchers Identify Gene Flaw That Strips Color Vision from Your Eyes

Researchers Identify Gene Flaw That Strips Color Vision from Your Eyes

In an inherited eye disorder, achromatopsia, malfunction of the cone photoreceptors causes sufferers to be either totally or predominantly colorblind.

US-based Firm Develops Special Glasses for People With Color Blindness

US-based Firm Develops Special Glasses for People With Color Blindness

With the corrective glass, the normal wavelengths are restored because it captures the right pigments, making the brain understand which colors are there.

Caucasian Boys More Likely to be Affected by Color Blindness

Caucasian Boys More Likely to be Affected by Color Blindness

Caucasian male children have the highest prevalence of color blindness, a new study found

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Color Vision Problems Become More Common With Age

Color Vision Problems Become More Common With Age

A study in Optometry and Vision Science says that abnormal color vision increases significantly with aging.

Brain Mechanisms Keep Color Vision Constant Across Lifespan

Brain Mechanisms Keep Color Vision Constant Across Lifespan

In the human eye, cone receptors lose their color sensitivity with age, but our subjective experience of color remains largely unchanged over the years.

Vision Disorder can be Diagnosed by Nintendo Wii Game Controllers

Vision Disorder can be Diagnosed by Nintendo Wii Game Controllers

Wii remotes can be used to assess and diagnose children with an abnormal head position caused by eye diseases, say scientists.

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Gene Responsible for Vision Disorder Traced

Gene Responsible for Vision Disorder Traced

Fuchs corneal dystrophy, a genetic disorder that necessitates corneal transplant operations could be caused by a gene identified in a new study.

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