World Down Syndrome Day is right around the corner, and I invite you to join us in celebrating on March 21! This special day ...

The brain of a US woman with Down syndrome showed the classic signs of Alzheimer’s disease upon her death, yet she remained ...

A new study led by Jonathan D. Santoro, MD, Director of the Neuroimmunology Program at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, shows ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), about 1 in 700 babies in the U.S. is born with Down syndrome, which equates to about 5,100 births per year. While many cases are ...

“This is also an important question to answer: why those patients with Down syndrome suffer from severe viral infection.” Down syndrome, also called trisomy 21, is the most common chromosomal disease ...

Robertsonian translocation, for example, is one of many different types of translocation that cytogeneticists have identified in DS patients over the years. In these cases, Down syndrome is caused ...

In the must-see video above, a Texas patient with down syndrome was blown away when two of her favorite Disney princesses came to visit her in hospital last December, thanks to the kindness of an ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — People with Down syndrome face a higher risk of developing leukemia. Now researchers explain why, by identifying specific changes in blood cells of people with Down ...

So McClure-Begley and his colleagues took a fibroblast from a single Down syndrome patient, coaxed it into becoming two iPSC lines, and then reprogrammed those cells into neural progenitor cells that ...

If you were a medical geneticist, how would you pick the best test for your patient? Sometimes, a pediatrician will suspect that a child has a genetic disorder based on the child's symptoms or on ...

A Texas patient with down syndrome was blown away when two of her favourite Disney princesses came to visit her in hospital last December, thanks to the kindness of an ICU nurse. When ICU nurse ...