A Cure for the Colorblindness Blues
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A Cure for the Colorblindness Blues
In this video from SciTech Now partner Science Friday, a geneticist and a neurobiologist team up in an attempt to cure colorblindness. As the most common genetic disorder worldwide, colorblindness affects roughly 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women, the overwhelming majority of whom have trouble perceiving red and green. Using virus-based gene therapy and a group of highly trained monkeys, the scientists may have finally created a cure for the colorblindness blues.