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Colour blindness corrected by gene therapy

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Treated monkeys can now see in technicolour.

Researchers have used gene therapy to restore colour vision in two adult monkeys that have been unable to distinguish between red and green hues since birth — raising the hope of curing colour blindness and other visual disorders in humans.

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  1. Mancuso, K. et al. Nature advanced online publication, doi:10.1038/nature08401 (2009).

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  1. Elie Dolgin
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Dolgin, E. Colour blindness corrected by gene therapy. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.921

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