Further to my article on Fragile X Syndrome the BBC health website has posted this article:
“Genetic engineering has been used to alleviate symptoms Fragile X in mice, which is a leading cause of inherited learning difficulties and autism. There is currently no treatment for Fragile X syndrome, also linked to epilepsy and abnormal body growth, but the new work raises hopes of progress.
A Massachusetts team were able to trigger big improvements in the mice by tweaking just one gene, FMRP. The researchers, from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examined mice which lack the …read more