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Color Blindness Cured in Monkeys

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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

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

Jim Schmidt • Roof Bolter