It utilizes a robotic arm to deliver
the entire therapeutic dose to an animal in 1 - 3 treatments, compared to conventional radiation therapy, which can employ up to 20 treatments.
The condition is more common than muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but the development of new
therapeutic concepts is hindered by the fact that unlike muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, where a single mutated gene causing the disease is known, the
entire human chromosome 21 (containing around 300 genes) still has to be dissected into individual gene -
dose contributions to the DS symptoms.