Chapter 3: A Cure for the Colorblindness
I am one of 8% color blindness men around the world. I have been colorblind since I had born and I thought I will be forever until I read the article written by the Daily Dots' Cynthia McKelvey titled, "Researchers are closing in on a cure for color blindness with the help of monkeys", the article seems like a glimmer of hope for the people whom had suffered from the Color Vision Deficiency.
The article talks about the possibility to change the mutation that occur in the gene that is responsible for the Red-Green color blindness by injecting a virus that has the missing gene underneath the retina. The virus will pass the gene in order to produce the cells necessary to perceived red.
Dr. Neitz and his wife Maureen have been working on the color vision research since 1999. Dr Neitz had treated monkeys from color blindness and succeeded to find a cure. However, this treatment had never been tried on human to see if the treatment is both safe and effective. The cure is ready to be tasted in human but the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had not approved the procedure for human trails.
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It’s very amazing how gene therapy can help many people and make their dreams come true. The video is very cool. I’m wondering how long did take the monkeys to recover from colorblindness after treating them with gene therapy.
ReplyDeleteSo happy that you are analyzing a video on gene therapy! This is so interesting. I really believe that this field is so promising and it has so much to offer, hopefully we continue research in this field and funding continues. I agree with Hussain in that I wonder how long it took the monkeys to recover and what the long term effects of treatment will be. It is so hard to analyze an experiment like this because they are in the early stages of research, I have so many questions that have not been answered yet. Great video!
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