I just came across this article..
(Sept. 16) - Monkeys once color-blind can now see the world in full color thanks to gene therapy. The results demonstrate the potential for such methods to eventually cure human vision disorders, from color blindness to possibly other conditions leading to full blindness.
The primate patients, named Dalton and Sam, are two adult, male squirrel monkeys that were red-green color-blind since birth — a condition that similarly affects human males more than females.
Five months after researchers injected human genes into the monkeys' eyes, the duo could see red as if they had always had this ability.
Since human genes were used and the monkeys' eyes and brains are similar to ours, at least in terms of color vision, the researchers hope the same procedure could work in humans.
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Gene Therapy Allows Color-Blind Monkeys to See Color
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