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Life Imitating Art, Reversing Fragile X Syndrome
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6-28-2007 11:01 PM
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How wonderful is this.
While this does not directly translate into a cure for fragile x it does give hope that future breakthroughs will leads us closer to a workable therapy for this disease.
Thumbs-up to the researchers at M.I.T.
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6-29-2007
6:51 AM
Mohir
Hopefully it will work better then in the mentioned book,
in the book, in both mice and Charlie the process reverses and they die
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