A Cromatoposia Study: Can Gene Therapy Improve Vision?

Let’s talk about how dating apps stress us out, the discovery of a massive ancient frog grave, and how gene therapy can potentially cure colorblindness. 

Dating App Data

• “The agony of partner choice: The effect of excessive partner availability on fear of being single, self-esteem, and partner choice overload” by Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes.
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563221003009
• “Science of Dating: How Many Times Should You Swipe on a Dating App?” by Ellen Nguyen.

https://medium.com/tinglymind/science-of-dating-how-many-times-should-you-swipe-on-a-dating-app-acb28e6e709a

Mass Frog Grave

“Ancient frogs in mass grave died from too much sex – new research” by Daniel Falk

• https://theconversation.com/ancient-frogs-in-mass-grave-died-from-too-much-sex-new-research-188562
• “How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction” by Merrit Kennedy
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/03/535383841/how-frogs-benefited-from-the-dinosaurs-extinction?t=1661975212547
• “The skeletal taphonomy of anurans from the Eocene Geiseltal Konservat-Lagerstätte, Germany: insights into the controls on fossil anuran preservation” by Daniel Falk, Oliver Wings, and Maria E. McNamara
  • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1453

Cure for Colorblind

• “Gene therapy partly restores cone function in two completely colorblind children” by Science Daily
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220824102951.htm
• “A demonstration of cone function plasticity after gene therapy in achromatopsia” by Mahtab Farahbakhsh, Elaine J Anderson, Roni O Maimon-Mor, Andy Rider, John A Greenwood, Nashila Hirji, Serena Zaman, Pete R Jones, D Samuel Schwarzkopf, Geraint Rees, Michel Michaelides, and Tessa M Dekker
  • https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awac226/6673168?login=false

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