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Human Retinas Grown In A Dish Reveal Origin Of Color Vision
In order to see the red of a sunset or the green of spring leaves, developing human eyes need to get the right hormone at the right time.
That's the finding of a team of scientists who studied how color vision develops using hundreds of human retinas grown in the lab.
The discovery, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help accelerate current efforts to cure colorblindness. It could also lead to new treatments for diseases including macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Muad'Dave on Monday October 15 2018, @12:31PM (1 child)
Even if you can get the correct cells to grow, how are you going to get the brain wired in and interpreting the new impulses as something it's never encountered?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 16 2018, @03:31PM
Colorblindness is an advantage because you can see through most common camouflage schemes.
Just like having a slightly smaller head (microcephaly) at birth makes birthgiving easier but they call it a disease just because having a tiny head is associated w a small brain (micrencephaly) and mental impairment. These people make up fake diseases.