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Shattering News: How Chromothripsis Cured a Rare Disease (nih.gov)
11 points by simonster on March 7, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



60 cases in 50 years, spontaneous remission because of a totally random breakage and reassembly of the at-fault damaged chromosome... ...wild!

To quote Jack Aubrey, 1805ish, "what a fascintating modern age we live in".




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