Experimental drug cancels effect from key intellectual disability gene in mice

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 15:50 in Health & Medicine

A researcher who studies the most common genetic intellectual disability has used an experimental drug to reverse -- in mice -- damage from the mutation that causes the syndrome. The condition, called fragile X, has devastating effects on intellectual abilities.

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