In the video, a preposterously cute, gray squirrel monkey named Dalton bonks his head against a computer screen in front of him. Wide-eyed and muttonchopped, Dalton has quite the setup—the screen, ...

Squirrel monkeys, which are naturally red-green color-blind, can attain humanlike color vision when injected with the gene for a human photoreceptor. The research, performed in adult animals, suggests ...

Two male squirrel monkeys now see the world in a whole new way — in full color. Female squirrel monkeys can see in color, but male squirrel monkeys are normally red-green colorblind because they lack ...

Researchers have successfully used gene therapy to help color-blind squirrel monkeys regain their sight. The development shows offers a new path for treating vision disorders that, until now, were ...

Scientists have used gene therapy to achieve full color vision in two squirrel monkeys that were born unable to tell red from green. The technique could someday be used on people with colorblindness ...

Monkeys once color-blind can now see the world in full color thanks to gene therapy. The results demonstrate the potential for such methods to eventually cure human vision disorders, from color ...

Scientists cast a rosy light on the potential for gene therapy to treat adult vision disorders involving cone cells -- the most important cells for vision in people. Scientists used gene therapy to ...

For two squirrel monkeys nicknamed Dalton and Sam, life has gotten a lot more colorful. Researchers used gene therapy to correct the color blindness of the two adult monkeys, giving them the ability ...