This is not true on multiple levels. One of the benefits of the Crispr technique is it can be used in vivo, so this sort of treatment will potentially be able to be used at any point in an individual’s life. But also, trisomy-21 isn’t present in sperm or eggs, it’s a mistake in cell division early in fetal development, so applying this technique to an egg would have no purpose or effect.
trisomy-21 isn’t present in sperm or eggs, it’s a mistake in cell division early in fetal development
This is incorrect. Non-disjunction (where chromosomes incorrectly separate) typically happens during the formation of egg or sperm. (We know this because most everyone with down syndrome has three different chromosome 21 instead of two identical copies of one chromosome.)
This is not true on multiple levels. One of the benefits of the Crispr technique is it can be used in vivo, so this sort of treatment will potentially be able to be used at any point in an individual’s life. But also, trisomy-21 isn’t present in sperm or eggs, it’s a mistake in cell division early in fetal development, so applying this technique to an egg would have no purpose or effect.
This is incorrect. Non-disjunction (where chromosomes incorrectly separate) typically happens during the formation of egg or sperm. (We know this because most everyone with down syndrome has three different chromosome 21 instead of two identical copies of one chromosome.)
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