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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.
Last on
Sat 12 Jul 201418:03
BBC Radio Scotland except Extra
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
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 Dec 201310:31BBC Radio Scotland
- Mon 5 May 201406:03BBC Radio Scotland
- Sat 12 Jul 201418:03BBC Radio Scotland except Extra
