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Nature 461, 695 (8 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/7265695a; Published online 7 October 2009

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Making the paper: Jay and Maureen Neitz

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Gene therapy fills in the gaps in the rainbow for colour-blind monkeys.

Everyday tasks such as telling whether a steak is well done or spotting sunburn can be next to impossible for people with red–green colour blindness. Now Jay and Maureen Neitz, a husband-and-wife research team at the Eye Institute of the University of Washington in Seattle, and their colleagues have successfully used gene therapy to fix the condition in adult monkeys, bringing new colour to their world.

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