Genetics: Colourful gene therapy
Researchers have given colour-blind monkeys the ability to see in full colour. The work, in this week’s Nature, demonstrates the potential for gene therapy to cure adult vision disorders.
Adding new sensory information, such as visual receptors sensitive to different wavelengths of light, to the brain would only be possible in the early years of life, when the brain is at its most plastic. Jay Neitz and colleagues now show that, in the case of distinguishing colours, this may not be true.
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