Scientists Discover Cure for Color Blindness

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Genetic scientists have discovered a cure for color blindness, offering hope to millions of sufferers.

Scientists at the University of Washington, in Seattle, and the University of Florida restored normal vision to two color-blind monkeys. The technique could prove to be a safe and effective cure for color blindness and other visual disorders related to the cones in the retina.

“Although color blindness is only moderately life-altering, we have shown we can cure a cone disease in a primate and that it can be done very safely,” said Professor William Hauswirth, an ophthalmic molecular geneticist at the University of Florida. “That is extremely encouraging for the development of therapies for human cone diseases that really are blinding.”

Those suffering from red-green color blindness cannot distinguish between colors in the green-red-yellow part of the spectrum. This can make reading maps, using the internet and selecting a matching shirt and tie impossible. The disorder affects about 8 percent of Caucasian males, but less than 0.5 percent of females.

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Hmm... this would be good for a couple of my friends. They have red-green color blindness.
 
The Cure of Color-Blind Monkeys

http://www.cs.utk.edu/~evers/documents/tetraChromat.txt

My brother is protanopic(no red) ive asked him if he would like a cure and he is on the fence about this. Ive also read that trichromats could get that genetic "cure" and become tetrachromats like a small percentage of women today possess! They have an extra color cone between red-green and it's something like ROGB. Dichromats see 3 colors in a rainbow(brown, yellow, blue,) trichromats see 6 colors(red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) and tetrachromats see 9 colors! The jury is out if the difference between trichromat and tetrachromat is as large as between dichromat and trichromat. We shall find out in a decade when trichromats are getting gene treatments to become tetrachromats. If it can be proven safe, gives you so many new colors and doesn't cost too much, id be interested in becomming a tetrachromat myself
 
When I was working and I found out that a co-worker is color-blind. I teased him by saying that he is seeing my car exactly as my car appeared. My car is grey.
 
For those of you who are colorblind, would you take the cure? For those with normal trichromatic color vision, would you want to see even more colors?
 
One famous person (Monty Roberts) is colorblind, and he once tried contacts (or something) that showed him the world in color. He said it gave him a headache, as the world was too "loud" and chaotic. He also says that seeing in black & white is easier because you can focus better. Makes sense, all that color can distract your eyes. Without that obnoxiousness and distraction, you can much more easily spot something far away or something moving out of the corner of your eye.
 
Color contacts do NOT make you see more colors, it just shifts the existing colors you already see. A colorblind cure won't affect the colors you already see but give you 100x more colors. It will be interesting to see how their brain copes when the pioneers get the cure.
 
deafdude1 said:
For those of you who are colorblind, would you take the cure? For those with normal trichromatic color vision, would you want to see even more colors?
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My husband is colorblind and he said no to cure cuz he lives with it for 49 years and used to it.
 
That's his choice. If my bro did not want cure, that's his choice too.

Here's what colorblindness is like. My bro is a protanope. He doesn't know what colors he is missing just as I don't know what sounds im missing.
To a red-green blind person, the first 3 look the same while the bottom looks different. To me, the top and bottom are different and the middle two look similar(both are red-green blindness types)

rainbow.jpg
 
deafdude1 said:
For those of you who are colorblind, would you take the cure? For those with normal trichromatic color vision, would you want to see even more colors?
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That's getting into the psychedelic colors range by eating mushrooms.
 
Psychedelic drugs do let you see colors, but not any more colors than your retina cones are capable of. Besides, those drugs are illegal and carry some risks. I seek a safe solution to permanent tetrachromacy, Google this.
 
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