"A US team were able to restore full colour vision to adult monkeys born without the ability to distinguish between the colours red and green. Until now scientists had not thought it was possible to manipulate the adult brain in this way.
It was considered that adding new sensory information, such as the visual receptors necessary for perfect colour vision, could only be done in the earliest years of life when the brain is at its most malleable or "plastic".
But Professor Jay Neitz and his team were able to introduce therapeutic genes into the light-sensing cells at the back of the eye of adult male squirrel monkeys." For the full story from BBC, click here.
Our President seems to be color blind, impervious to the racial slurs the rest of us are seeing and hearing towards him, though our 39th President Carter sees the blindness in those who see only color. We do not have a black President. We have a racially mixed man who happens to be the US President. Apparently some Whites see only the Black and some Blacks see only the White. Since gene therapy is not the solution for this problem, do we really have to have violence before we wake up as a country of Americans and not a country of ignorant, rigid, sore losers?
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