Scientists Cure Color Blindness in 2 Monkeys

[Rt&Dzine]

Gene therapy was used to cure color blindness in monkeys. Pretty cool!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090916133521.htm

 

[Buzz Bumble]

You can get contact lenses that "cure" colour blindness ... but they cost a fortune.

 

[Rt&Dzine]

You can get contact lenses that "cure" colour blindness ... but they cost a fortune.

And monkeys aren't very good at putting them in.

 

[bainesajay]

Re: Contacts

You can get contact lenses that "cure" colour blindness ... but they cost a fortune.

Wow that sounds unreal to me! Do you have a link to a reputable reference?

 

[RKO]

Wow that sounds unreal to me! Do you have a link to a reputable reference?

I thought the link in the OP was credible enough?

Here's the source: http://news.ufl.edu/2009/09/16/colorblind/

 

[ravenvii]

I thought the link in the OP was credible enough?

Here's the source: http://news.ufl.edu/2009/09/16/colorblind/

He meant the contacts, not the genetic therapy.

 

[Buzz Bumble]

Wow that sounds unreal to me! Do you have a link to a reputable reference?

If you mean a reference for the contact lenses, then I read it recently in the national newspaper here in New Zealand. They are custom made lenses for each person's colour deficiencies, so of course you've got an expensive consultation and then expensive lenses that have to be made individually ... making them hidiously expensive.

 

[RKO]

He meant the contacts, not the genetic therapy.

Whoops my bad!

 

[nanofrog]

Whoops my bad!

Here's an article on it (X-Chrom is the brand name).

Here's another site that makes a line of lenses for eye glasses.

 

[bainesajay]

Thanks for the link

Thanks I will read it today. I was only inquiring because I thought it would odd that a lens could correct for the inability to process colors. I always assumed color was processed my cones in the retina based on the different wave length of the electromagnetic radiation. Therefore a corrective lens would do little in that it could only bend/focus light in order to compensate for degradation or changes in cornea.

Thanks - will read it

 

[abijnk]

Here's an article on it (X-Chrom is the brand name).

Here's another site that makes a line of lenses for eye glasses.

Now THAT is freaking cool.

 

[Barbie]

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how did they know the monkeys were color blind?

O.O

 

[Rt&Dzine]

how did they know the monkeys were color blind?

O.O

The 2 monkeys kept mixing up each other's nanos.

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