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Published online 22 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070319-12
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Mice made to see a rainbow of colours
All you need to see more is more pigments in the eye.
Simply by inserting a piece of DNA that codes for a human eye pigment into the genome of a mouse, scientists have introduced a rainbow array of colour to the dull mix of yellows, blues and greys that normally make up a mouse's visual world.
This suggests that the mammalian brain is very flexible and can interpret signals not normally encountered.
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