Photo: Mice Get "Human" Vision in Gene Experiment

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A mouse drinks a drop of soy milk as a reward for correctly identifying which of three illuminated panels is a different color from the other two.

The rodent was part of a genetic experiment that gave it enhanced color vision much like that of humans. Normally mice see only blues, grays, and yellows.

Photograph by Gerald Jacobs, courtesy Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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