Timeline for Seeing new colours with new photoreceptors
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| Mar 9, 2018 at 22:33 | comment | added | bandybabboon | Humans probably couldn't use UV photoreceptors, a study found that all animals that can see UV's, birds and some mammals, have eyes smaller than 5-7mm. io9.gizmodo.com/… | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 18:27 | comment | added | Tmanok | Awesome John thanks for sharing! @Ratchet Freak, yes there was a transplant of an entire bionic eye in colorado 2015, another in the UK but different operation and then a neat one for ARMD (AMD is the generally more accepted term) where they grafted an electrode array connected to a pair of glasses with a camera. I'm sure there have been more but when you read "first, first, first, first" all during different years it makes you think "first time using this method? Your title is misleading and earns a skepticism award". | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 14:19 | comment | added | John | There be tetrachromatic humans already. web.archive.org/web/20120214002707/http://www.klab.caltech.edu/… | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | ratchet freak | @Tmanok If I get the reference correctly that was a photoreceptor chip grafted to the retina. | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 9:12 | comment | added | Tmanok | Awesome, I believe that there is a man or woman who's been given a robotic eye (about 3 years ago) and it was very blurry and low saturation but the same colours as our SML receive. I just did a quick google and found about 5 links to different events claiming to be the first transplant and one really neat one to combat ARMD. I think that with Crispr being our modern DNA modifier would could eventually learn enough about DNA to design improved sight. But back to the question, yes certainly would be fascinating to know the outcome of "extra" or "new" colours. | |
| Mar 9, 2018 at 9:06 | vote | accept | Tmanok | ||
| Mar 9, 2018 at 8:08 | history | answered | bandybabboon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |