Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in ...

Children with Down syndrome often undergo extensive medical tests, including imaging, that may use ionizing radiation. At the same time, genetic disorders like Down syndrome have an established ...

Researchers have identified a gene that causes heart defects in Down syndrome, a condition that results from an additional copy of chromosome 21. Reducing the overactivity of this gene partially ...

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and Down syndrome are both conditions that are present at birth. While they both affect facial appearance, development, and physical health, they have different causes.

A groundbreaking new study reports important differences in oxygen physiology and red blood cell function in individuals with Down syndrome. A groundbreaking new study published in Cell Reports by ...

A new study found that patients with Down syndrome arthropathy continue to have an approximate year-long delay in diagnosis from the onset of their symptoms, and that optimal therapy for this ...

Charlotte Woodward was born with a congenital heart condition, and as a child, she underwent four open heart surgeries. “Everyone thought that my fourth one would be my last,” Woodward, 33, a programs ...

Emma McLean is a 6-year-old girl who loves Taylor Swift, reading books, playing the drums and hanging with her little sister. While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down ...

Professor Rhonda Faragher AO is Director of the Down Syndrome Research Program in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is also Vice-President of Down Syndrome ...

In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-edge experiment to investigate the cause of Down syndrome. She painstakingly cultured cells in a ...