Showing posts with label Mice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mice. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2007

Genetic studies endow mice with new color vision

miceAlthough mice, like most mammals, typically view the world with a limited color palette – similar to what some people with red-green color blindness see – scientists have now transformed their vision by introducing a single human gene into a mouse chromosome. The human gene codes for a light sensor that mice do not normally possess, and its insertion allowed the mice to distinguish colors as never before.

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