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Color Blind? Just 3 Amino Acids Separate Red From Green Vision


Red and green don't look like particularly close colors at a glance, but the way your eye treats them is surprisingly similar.  A new study in Science, led by biochemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan, has now revealed just how close they really are on a molecular level.

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