Gene Therapy For Color Blindness
Researchers and scientists believe that with advancements in modern technology gene therapy will rebuild the ability of patients to visualize all colors.
Gene therapy for color blindness. Gene therapy is the new hope. The retina a light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye contains light receptor cells called rods and cones. An initial trial in patients suggests that a new gene therapy treatment for helping overcome color blindness developed by researchers in germany is completely safe.
Hassall mm 1 2 barnard ar 1 2 maclaren re 1 2. Gene therapy for color blindness. Gene therapy might indeed work to cure red green color blindness and allow patients to see the world in a whole new way.
New research suggests that gene therapy could one day give such patients the ability to see in full color. Researchers used gene therapy to cure red green color blindness in adult monkeys. 2 oxford eye hospital oxford university hospitals nhs foundation trust oxford uk.
As color blindness is a vision disorder that does not involve retinal degeneration attempting its treatment in humans will allow us to understand the full potential of gene therapy to restore visual capacities as well as to develop additional therapies for a broad range. The researchers also obtained. Though partial color blindness is considered only a mild disability it is a condition that affects many people particularly males complete color blindness or achromatopsia is very rare but more severe.
16 2009 a rainbow of hope for people who are color blind. 1 nuffield laboratory of ophthalmology department of clinical neurosciences university of oxford oxford uk. In recent last years there were ideas to cure color blindness with the help of gene therapy.
