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Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision
- ravenstine 8y agoWhy, when we read articles about lab-grown human body parts, are we never given a single photo?
- fromthestart 8y agoProbably because the published literature doesn't come with photos, and modern journalists don't know how to perform any sort of actual investigation anymore, i.e. contacting authors.
- trolololooo 8y agoI feel like a journalist with a master's degree in neuroscience probably knows quite a bit about performing actual investigation. Do we need to have pictures with every story?
- ravenstine 8y agoNo, definitely not, but sometimes a visual can help people take science more seriously. If advances like lab grown organs are only ever written about, that's more people who will see science as mystical or perhaps even fake. As they say, a photo is worth a thousand words. I am just curious as to what the process really looks like.
- trolololooo 8y agoIt is probably quite tough to get news-ready rights-released photos from academic institutions on a news schedule. I hope you do some more deep diving into the subject matter, as it's easily findable and stunningly beautiful: https://www.google.com/search?q=lab+grown+retinas https://www.google.com/search?q=lab+grown+retinas
- kwhitefoot 8y ago> as it's easily findable So why didn't the person who's job it is to inform us do it.
- trolololooo 8y agoThe person whose job it is to inform you is... you
- TeMPOraL 8y agoAlso: I'd like to see the photo so that I can evaluate claims in context myself. Text leaves too much to imagination. Not putting actual, real photos or videos in media reporting can and does easily lead to overhyping things. For an extreme example, consider the Magic Leap debacle.
- HarryHirsch 8y agoIt's because these "lab-grown human body parts" are in fact organoids, which have the correct microanatomical features but do not at all look like the full-scale organs we are used to from biology class.
- anonytrary 8y agoThey don't look like what laypeople would expect them to look like? All the more reason for a photo.
- pluma 8y agoI wonder if this means that hereditary red/green deficiency is correlated with hypothyroidism. As a severely green deficient individual however I'm glad there's still active research into this. Maybe some day I'll be able to experience the full color spectrum, not just the approximation I get with my enchroma glasses.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoYears ago, someone sent me info supporting the idea that zinc deficiency impairs vision, specifically suppressing perception of the color green.