{"id":28312,"date":"2016-07-26T18:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T01:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:30:39","slug":"scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have found a woman whose eyes have a whole new type of colour receptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After more than 25 years of searching, neuroscientists in the UK recently announced that they\u2019ve discovered a woman who has an extra type of cone cell \u2014 the receptor cells that detect colour \u2014 in her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates, that means she can see an incredible 99 million more colours than the rest of us, and the scientists think she\u2019s just one of a number of people with super-vision, which they call \u201ctetrachromats\u201d, living amongst us.<\/p>\n<p>Most humans are trichromats, which means we have three types of cone cells in our eyes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-found-a-woman-whose-eyes-have-a-whole-new-type-of-colour-receptor\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-found-a-woman-wh...r-receptor<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than 25 years of searching, neuroscientists in the UK recently announced that they\u2019ve discovered a woman who has an extra type of cone cell \u2014 the receptor cells that detect colour \u2014 in her eyes. According to estimates, that means she can see an incredible 99 million more colours than the rest of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66783,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312\/revisions\/66783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}