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Gene therapy has cured color blindness in monkeys, say researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Florida College of Medicine. They have shown that they can safely cure a cone disease in a primate. Five weeks after the genes were transferred by a harmless adeno-associated virus, the monkeys began to acquire color vision. Potentially, this could help AMD by rescuing targeted cone cells.

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