Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice

Update: 2016-12-08

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In 2005 British scientist Elizabeth Fisher and a colleague successfully transplanted a human chromosome into a mouse for the first time. It transformed medical research into the genetic condition Down Syndrome that affects millions of people worldwide. Professor Fisher tells Louise Hidalgo about the challenges researchers faced and their thirteen-year struggle to create the first Down Syndrome mouse.

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Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice

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Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice