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Cowan in Colour

It can stop you having the job you want, impact on relationships and worst of all, make you rubbish at snooker. One in ten men are colour blind, including Tam Cowan.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Jul 2014 18:03

Mark Changizi

Mark Changizi is a theoretical neurobiologist and the author of several books including The Vision Revolution. He's also the inventor of revolutionary eyeware that can help with colour blindness under certain circumstances.

Professor Jay Neitz

Jay Neitz is a professor of opthamology at the Universit of Washington. He's famous for leading the team that managed to cure colour blindness in monkeys using gene therapy. He hopes to be able to do human trials of the treamtent and then eventually offer it to those hope would like to have their colour vision repaired.

Tam takes a colour vision test

Tam takes a colour vision test

Broadcasts

  • Sun 15 Dec 2013 10:31
  • Mon 5 May 2014 06:03
  • Sat 12 Jul 2014 18:03