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Re:Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection by topynate on Thursday September 05, 2013 @12:40PM (#6335154)
So what would be required for the mice to have something sufficiently Down's-like? They didn't shrink the brains with toxins or anything, that shrinkage was a natural consequence of duplication of genes, just as it is in human DS.
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Re:Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection by epo on Thursday September 05, 2013 @12:50PM (#6335229)
Some genes, not all of them. The experiment was about brain shrinkage, not Down's syndrome.
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Re:Down syndrome reversed in newborn mice with single injection by vilhelm_s on Thursday September 05, 2013 @01:06PM (#6335360)
The mice are made specifically as an animal model of Down syndrome. See http://dmm.biologists.org/content/4/5/596.full
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