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Scientists have figured out how to snip DNA from human cells and insert it into mice embryos to let previously color blind mice see color. Before the mice didn’t grow the right kind of cone cells in their retina; now they do. Eventually I expect this therapy to be available for people.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032201841.html?nav=rss_nation

Of course it doesn’t have to stop at curing colorblindness. Perhaps people could be given the cells of creatures that sense ultraviolet or infrared light, for example.

Will we be the generation that sees many Science Fiction fantasies turn into realities?

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