色盲可以治疗吗

Nature 16 September 2009 doi:10.1038/news.2009.921Colour blindness corrected by gene therapyTreated monkeys can now see in technicolour.Elie DolginResearchers have used gene therapy to restore colour vision in two adult monkeys that have been unable to distinguish between red and green hues since birth — raising the hope of curing colour blindness and other visual disorders in humans.从这个报道来看是可以治疗的。用病毒做载体,把可以合成红色视蛋白的基因注射给猴子,猴子就有了识别新颜色的能力。


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