Color Blindness Cured in Monkeys

American Voices • Science & Technology • health • animals • ISSUE 45•38 • Sep 18, 2009

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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