Color vision in insects differs from our own. Special genes allow many insects to see ultraviolet (UV) light as well as blue and green. New research led by Camilla Sharkey, a postdoctoral associate at ...

Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retinas from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made. The work, set for publication in the journal Science, lays the ...

Researchers have grown human retinal cells in the laboratories and thus attempted to understand the basis of color vision and its development in humans. The results showed that certain hormones are ...

In the human eye, there are three types of cone cells that regulate color vision, sensing red, blue or green light, but little is known about how these specialized cells emerge in the eyes of a ...

Tritanopia is a type of color vision deficiency that may make it hard for someone to distinguish between blue and green, pink and yellow, and red and purple. Color vision deficiency, also called color ...