Color-Blind Photographers, Rejoice! We are the last of our kind...

[bmattock]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/colortherapy/

After receiving injections of genes that produce color-detecting proteins, two color-blind monkeys have seen red and green for the first time.

Except in its extreme forms, color blindness isn’t a debilitating condition, but it’s a convenient stand-in for other types of blindness that might be treated with gene therapy. The monkey success raises the possibility of reversing those diseases, in a manner that most scientists considered impossible.

 

[crawdiddy]

What a blessing! Perhaps one day I can buy fruit at the farmers market without being tricked into purchasing the green stuff. I never dreamed this day would come.

 

[bmattock]

What a blessing! Perhaps one day I can buy fruit at the farmers market without being tricked into purchasing the green stuff. I never dreamed this day would come.

Ah, it's too late for us, my friend. Apparently the treatment only works on the young...

 

[Chris101]

I just gave up bananas. Or I ask a girl shopper to pick 'em for me (girls don't get colorblindness - ok!?)