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Health Rounds: Gene editing may hold key to preventing Down syndrome

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Down syndrome, or trisomy 21 , is caused by the presence of a third copy of the 21st chromosome.

Japanese researchers used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system to eliminate the third chromosome.

Lipid nanoparticles carrying messenger RNA are injected intravenously.

They are able to circumvent the blood-brain barrier that usually keeps out drugs.

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