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Scientists Cure Colour Blindness in Monkeys Thursday, September 17, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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The breakthrough could also have implications for other damaging genetic eye defects, including those which can cause blindness, after researchers proved for the first time that the brain can “rewire” itself to see things it has never been able to before. Colour blindness is the most common inherited eye problem and affects more than one million men and more than 100,000 women in Britain. Scientists cured the animals using a treatment called gene therapy. (source: telegraph.co.uk)
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