{"id":830,"date":"2013-07-26T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=830"},"modified":"2013-07-21T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T21:57:03","slug":"curing-down-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/07\/26\/curing-down-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Curing&#8221; Down Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I <a title=\"Academic Freedom, Down Syndrome, and Cognitive Dissonance\" href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2013\/03\/08\/academic-freedom-down-syndrome-and-cognitive-dissonance\/\">weighed in on a topic<\/a> that can get quite heated &#8211; Down Syndrome and the potential prevention of children with it being born. Although I was more focused on a) why people should not be publicly shamed for writing about controversial topics and b) why certain people might become such a fierce defender of letting children with DS be born rather than aborted, I nonetheless received quite a bit of negative feedback on the post from people with children who have DS.<\/p>\n<p>As such, my brain was piqued by the following headline:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/07\/17\/how-to-shut-down-the-extra-chromosome-in-downs-syndrome\/\">Shutting Down the Extra Chromosome in Down&#8217;s Syndrome Cells<\/a>\u00a0(via NatGeo)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/07\/17\/how-to-shut-down-the-extra-chromosome-in-downs-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\">research is many years away from any human applications, and instead focuses on inactivating t<\/a>he extra chromosome present in lab grown cells. Nonetheless, the work represents a huge step forward and overcame tremendous technical problems to actually do the work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, I pose this question: if a treatment was available that could reverse or improve the physical and mental problems caused by Down&#8217;s Syndrome, would you use it on your child?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I weighed in on a topic that can get quite heated &#8211; Down Syndrome and the potential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,19,16],"tags":[117,195,194],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-medicine","category-politics","category-science-2","tag-down-syndrome","tag-ethics","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}