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Brain inflammation may be fueled by a gene on the X chromosome, a new study in mice suggests. And in female mice, who carry two X chromosomes, a diabetes drug called metformin may work to counteract that inflammation. If these findings bear out in later studies, they could help to unravel the long-standing mystery of why women, who have two …

An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any animal. The elusive species (Polyommatus atlantica), which is native to the mountains of North Africa, possesses as many as 229 pairs per cell. To put that in perspective, most other butterflies have 31 or 32 pairs. We humans have …

A group of Chinese scientists has overcome a challenge that stumped biologists for decades by developing a new gene-editing tool that can precisely manipulate millions of base pairs – the building blocks of DNA. The innovation has been hailed as “very significant progress” by Professor Yin Hao, a gene editing specialist at Wuhan University’s medical research institute, who was not …

Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome  Hacker News Could Down syndrome be eliminated? Japanese scientists use CRISPR to target extra chromosome  qazinform.com Japanese Scientists Discover a Way to Treat Down Syndrome  Zamin.uz Scientists claim to remove chromosome linked to Down syndrome  Latest news from Azerbaijan Breaking Japanese Scientists Claim to Have Deleted the Chromosome Causing Down Syndrome: …