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Rescued from the fate of neurological disorder

Polymer-coated gold nanoparticles carrying the CRISPR components for knocking out, in the striatum of adult mice with fragile X syndrome, a gene implied in the syndrome’s pathophysiology rescue the mice from the exaggerated repetitive behaviours characteristic of the syndrome’s phenotype.

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Fig. 1: Genome editing and recovery of mice from the fragile X syndrome (FXS) phenotype via CRISPR–Gold.

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Li, Y., Glass, Z. & Xu, Q. Rescued from the fate of neurological disorder. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 469–470 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0267-1

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