News tagged with color blindness
Finding our color center
The colorful Australian film Strictly Ballroom has been used in a breakthrough scientific experiment to locate the colour processing center in the human brain.
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Gene therapy cures canines of inherited form of day blindness
Veterinary ophthalmology researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to restore retinal cone function and day vision in two canine models of congenital achromatopsia, also called rod monochromacy ...
Apr 21, 2010 |
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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.
Sep 16, 2009 |
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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.
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Building a 'blind-friendly' Internet
Rakesh Babu demonstrates how a blind person uses the Internet.
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Blind moles use beauty for function, not fancy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long wondered why a blind mole that lives in underground darkness has beautiful iridescent hair. After all, many animals or birds with magnificent features exhibit their colorful ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Researchers develop gene therapy that could correct a common form of blindness
A new gene therapy method developed by University of Florida researchers has the potential to treat a common form of blindness that strikes both youngsters and adults. The technique works by replacing a malfunctioning gene ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Sri Lanka donates eyes to the world
(AP) -- At 10:25 a.m., a dark brown eye was removed from a man whose lids had closed for the last time. Five hours later, the orb was staring up at the ceiling from a stainless steel tray in an operating ...
Jan 22, 2012 |
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Outside temperatures, sun exposure and gender may trigger glaucoma
When it comes to whether or not you will develop exfoliation syndrome (ES) -- an eye condition that is a leading cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and increased risk of cataract as well as cataract surgery complications ...
Jan 01, 2012 |
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High-quality white light produced by four-color laser source
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human eye is as comfortable with white light generated by diode lasers as with that produced by increasingly popular light-emitting diodes (LEDs), according to tests conceived at Sandia ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Students coax yeast cells to add vitamins to bread
Any way you slice it, bread that contains critical nutrients could help combat severe malnutrition in impoverished regions. That is the goal of a group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduate students who ...
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Study confirms males and females have at least one thing in common: Upregulating X
In a study published today in the journal Nature Genetics, a group of scientists including UNC biologist Jason Lieb, PhD, present experiments supporting a longstanding hypothesis that explains how males can survive with o ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Electrical stimulation to help the blind see
(Medical Xpress) -- In people who have lost vision due to an injury or disease, the brain is still capable of "seeing." Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Cognitive and Brain Science Department ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Study compares narrow band imaging to chromoendoscopy for the detection of dysplasia in IBD patients
A new study from Spain finds that narrow band imaging appears to be a less time-consuming and equally effective alternative to chromoendoscopy for the detection of dysplasia (abnormal growths) in patients with long-standing ...
Oct 12, 2011 |
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