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Stories about: color blindness

Gene Therapy Cures Color Blindness Experts at the University of Washington in Seattle have recently announced the first successful treatment of color blindness using gene therapy, in squirrel monkeys. The method has been applied on animals that were born with the condition, not that developed it over the course of their lifetimes. The new research bri... 17 September 2009 01:30 GMT How to Install the Colorblind Applet on GNOME Color blindness, sometimes called daltonism, is mostly a color vision deficiency. Colorblind people can't tell the difference between some chromatic colors and as far as I know there are no tools on Linux OSes that can help them distinguish the hues. I use Ubuntu, and the colorblind applet is part of the gnome-m... 1 August 2008 11:43 GMT