UW Scientists, Biotech Firm May Have Cure For Colorblindness

An anonymous reader writes with news about a possible cure for colorblindness. "For the more than 10million Americans with colorblindness, there's never been a treatment, let alone a cure, for the condition that leaves them unable to distinguish certain hues. Now, for the first time, two University of Washington professors have teamed with a California biotech firm to develop what they say may be a solution: a single shot in the eye that reveals the world in full color. Jay and Maureen Neitz, husband-and-wife scientists who have studied the vision disorder for years, have arranged an exclusive license agreement between UW and Avalanche Biotechnologies of Menlo Park. Together, they've found a new way to deliver genes that can replace missing color-producing proteins in certain cells, called cones, in the eyes."

Comments

Stop trying to cure me.

[Anonymous Coward]

Colorblindness is a form of diversity. You don't hate diversity, do you?

Re:Stop trying to cure me.

[pushing-robot]

Only when I'm writing CSS.

Re:People with artificial lenses can already see U

[i.r.id10t]

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I just got kicked out of the unit. My flight status has been withdrawn. I'm through, Dead Meat!

Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: What happened?

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: It's my eyes. I've got walleye-vision.

Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: Isn't there something that can be done?

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me!

The ability to see Octarine is still in developmen

[Anonymous Coward]

Problems include screaming fits of madness,complaints about seeing a skinny fellow who speaks in all capitals and occasionally getting next week's mail last Tuesday.

Re:Color blindness is useful though

[mark-t]

If you saw a red light as green, then the speed you must have been approaching it at to induce an effective doppler shift from what was about 680 nm wavelength photons which are normally seen as red, to about 540 nm, or the green portion of the visible spectrum would suggest that you were speeding by no small margin.

Re:Color blindness is useful though

[Kjella]

"Oh come on officer, I was only 0.25c above the limit!"