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Using CRISPR to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome
Gene editing techniques may eventually allow trisomy to be treated at the cellular level, according to an in vitro ...
Child with rare epileptic disorder receives long-awaited diagnosis
Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...
Science Daily1d
Research achieves gene-editing breakthrough that could improve treatment for liver disease, other disorders
Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...
Scientific American12d
Who Discovered the Cause of Down Syndrome?
It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...
Baylor College of Medicine6d
Repair Drive: Precision gene therapy for liver disorders
Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...
Armed robbery in Revesby6d
Gene Therapy Breakthrough Targets Liver Disorders
Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...
Medscape17d
Chromosomal Abnormalities and Bipolar Affective Disorder: Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome
It does not require any assumptions about the genetic mechanisms involved in the disease, but is statistically less powerful than family linkage analysis. Chromosomal (cytogenetic) abnormalities ...
El País in English1d
The second revolution in gene therapy that has cured Javier, a child with a lethal error in the X chromosome
An Italian foundation that helped a young boy overcome Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome becomes the first non-profit in the world to ...