Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome In Mice

An anonymous reader writes "New research by a team of Bangalore-based scientists has given hope to those with emotional problems caused by the inheritance of a fragile X chromosome. The researchers, for the first time in the world, mapped defective connections between nerve cells in the emotional hub of the brain of mice who had Fragile X Syndrome. The research has just been published in the online edition of the US-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." Besides the mapping of these nerves, though, "The NCBS team has shown that even the long-term ravages of the condition could be reversed with medication in mice." Fragile X syndrome is associated with autism, though the conditions do not map directly to each other.

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[XCondE]

Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome

What?

Editors are sick of people not reading the summary so they're making the headline incomprehensible. Your move.

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[Hognoxious]

Animal experiments are scientific fraud.

Not true. The Japanese have been doing experiments on whales for some time and the incontrovertible conclusion is that they taste very nice.