Gene therapy has partly restored the function of the retina’s cone receptors in two children who were born completely colourblind, reports a new study led by UCL researchers. The findings, published ...

There are colors all around us that we cannot see – but a new pair of glasses could soon change that. While human color vision relies on three types of photoreceptor cone cells, the specs essentially ...

The mammalian retina is fundamentally dichromatic, with trichromacy only recently emerging in some primates. In dichromats, an array of short wavelength–sensitive (S, blue) and middle ...