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Friday, September 18, 2009

Color Blindness Cured in Monkeys

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?

Young Woman

Mandy Fielding,
Systems Analyst
"Wonderful. Now those monkeys can obey traffic lights like everybody else."

Young Man

Eric Hunt,
Lab Technician
"Of all the things I've injected into monkeys' eyes, I never considered experimental therapies."

Black Man

Jim Schmidt,
Roof Bolter
"Hopefully the monkeys will remember our act of generosity in the troubled era to come."

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