Color Blindness Cured in Monkeys

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Color Blindness Cured in Monkeys

September 18, 2009 | ISSUE 45•38

An experimental treatment in which a human virus carrying color-sensing genes was injected into monkeys' eyes resulted in a drastic reduction in red-green color blindness. What do you think?

Wonderful. Now those monkeys can obey traffic lights like everybody else."

Mandy Fielding
Systems Analyst
Of all the things I've injected into monkeys' eyes, I never considered experimental therapies."

Eric Hunt
Lab Technician
Hopefully the monkeys will remember our act of generosity in the troubled era to come."

Jim Schmidt
Roof Bolter

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