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Chromosome Structure, Composition & Location

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Every cell in your body contains 46 chromosomes. A person with Down syndrome has 47. Japanese scientists just pulled the extra one out of a cell in a dish, and the internet decided that means we cured Down syndrome. We didn't.The February 2025 Mie University paper is a real scientific advance and nothing like the viral translation. Every cell in a Down syndrome patient has three copies of chromosome 21. Those three copies are 99.9% identical at the DNA level. Hashizume's team sequenced the patie