One day science will restore balance to the genomes of 8p heroes. It will be a long, arduous journey. The first step toward a curative chromosome therapy can be summed up as: aneuploidy, heal thyself.
Since the dawn of life three billion years ago up to this very moment, chromosomes perform a timeless microscopic Cirque du Soleil inside the nucleus of every mother cell that is poised to divide into two daughter cells. This improbable performance has repeated trillions upon trillions of times across the tree of life over our collective evolutionary history. Critically, the genetic material in a mother cell — in the case of humans, 23 pairs of chromosomes — must be evenly bequeathed to her two daughter cells. Otherwise, the genome is out of balance and the consequences can be catastrophic.
