Gene Therapy Gives Monkeys Color Vision
Date: 18.9.2009
Squirrel monkeys can now see your **true colors**, thanks to **gene therapy**. Researchers have given the **colorblind** primates full color vision as adults by injecting their eyes with a **human gene**. The result raises questions about how the brain understands color, and it could eventually lead to gene-therapy treatments for colorblindness and other **visual disorders** in humans.
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