Color Blind Monkey Cured
Posted on September 17, 2009
Gene therapy fixes color blindness in monkeys
A simple injection of cells has cured monkeys of color-blindness—giving a green light to future research into improving human vision with gene therapy, a new study says.
Calling the procedure his gene therapy “dream,” researcher Jay Neitz said that “ultimately this could be a tool that could cure all sorts of eye diseases.”
It’s too early to say that the technique can help color-blind people who can’t see red or green, but study co-author Neitz is confident.
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If it success.. Many people would help
It is a very good news indeed. However how about the success of indonesian researchers? When will they can be able to do something big like that? What a miracles to us.
I wish it’ll be success, for human, for our life
Terlalu dini jika teknik ini berhasil buat manusia, tapi tetap saja ini kabar baik buat ilmu kesehatan