Is colour blindness curable?

Colour filters or contact lenses can be used in some situations to enhance the brightness between some colours and these are occasionally used in the workplace, but many colour blind people find these actually confuse them further rather than help. read more

Thanks to some amazing research at the University of Washington, a successful color blindness cure in monkeys has been created. Two monkeys have been cured with no ill effects – With such promising results, hopefully a true cure for this, and many other eye diseases are not that far away! read more

Colour Blindness is a x linked recessive gene inherited condition. It is seen in about 5% of the population. It is seen mostly in males and rarely in females. It is maternally inherited and usually seen in the male line of the family. Colour Blindness does not mean actual blindness but impairment of colour vision. read more

There are currently 4 main companies developing products to aid color blind people in reducing the effects of their condition: ColorMax, ColorView, ChomaGen, and ColorLite. read more

For full color vision, the brain has to understand the information that comes from the retinas, and the brains of people who are born color blind may have developed differently as they grew up. Although the lives of color blind people are undoubtedly affected by their vision, color blindness is not a vision-threatening condition. read more