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Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
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Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#12I don't really understand what it says. As a layman in this topic, I'm curious if modifications like that can cause other effects?
It says that they've developed a way to identify the extra chromosome(s) passed to a child by a malfunctioning germ cell, specifically chromosome 21 though presumably this method could be reproduced for other trisomy diseases. This could, most immediately, lead to a therapy that allows a couple that is going through in vitro fertilization to repair a zygote that has trisomy by correcting the number of chromosomes it…
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Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#13I read the abstract but I'm still a bit confused. Will this help people who have down syndrome? Or is it a way to help future pregnancies?
Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#14This is interesting news, for the lack of a better word. I've met more than one person with downs syndrome. They have definitely enriched my life and shown me a different way of looking at the world.
What's better for them should be the overriding concern and that's to have a normal development.
I am not advocating any course in particular.
But I will observe that when such treatments become available, such conditions become a marker of lower socioeconomic class and the people with the conditions get treated less well by society.
This is why we need a better healthcare system.
Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#15This is interesting news, for the lack of a better word. I've met more than one person with downs syndrome. They have definitely enriched my life and shown me a different way of looking at the world.
What's better for them should be the overriding concern and that's to have a normal development.
I don't know if it's the case for folks with Down Syndrome (I suppose it's likely not), but hearing-impaired folks have their own culture to the point that in the past it was seen as some as a betrayal to the community to seek out cochlear implants. I think having their own language does a lot to create unity among them.
All that above is to say that I wonder if some folks in Down Syndrome might actually prefer their status quo abnormal development?
Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#16This is interesting news, for the lack of a better word. I've met more than one person with downs syndrome. They have definitely enriched my life and shown me a different way of looking at the world.
What's better for them should be the overriding concern and that's to have a normal development.
What is “normal development”? And doesn’t that describe the process, not the outcome? If the outcome is happiness, who knows who has it better?!
Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's better for them should be the overriding concern and that's to have a normal development.
I don't know if it's the case for folks with Down Syndrome (I suppose it's likely not), but hearing-impaired folks have their own culture to the point that in the past it was seen as some as a betrayal to the community to seek out cochlear implants. I think having their own language does a lot to create unity among them. All that above is to say that I wonder if some folks in Down Syndrome might actually prefer their…
Down syndrome has significant developmental effects beyond mental impairment, lifespans are considerably shorter and while that's improving that doesn't take into account quality of life, medical complications are almost inevitable.
Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#18I read the abstract but I'm still a bit confused. Will this help people who have down syndrome? Or is it a way to help future pregnancies?
Future pregnancies.
Re: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's better for them should be the overriding concern and that's to have a normal development.
What is “normal development”? And doesn’t that describe the process, not the outcome? If the outcome is happiness, who knows who has it better?!
Such that doesn't see you infertile and dead by 30.
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