While I was in middle school and during my high school years, I dedicated one of my classroom periods each semester to being ...

The clinic, located on the ground floor of the N.C. Children’s Hospital on Manning Drive in Chapel Hill, officially opens ...

In a groundbreaking advancement for families grappling with the challenges of Dravet syndrome, a rare and life-altering form ...

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

Down syndrome is also the most common genetic cause of cognitive dysfunction. But little research has explored how gene editing tools could potentially be used to treat this condition. A new study ...

Decades of tests had shown that she had both Down syndrome and an intermediate level of Alzheimer's. Physical examinations ...

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 ...

Despite her brain’s pathology indicating Alzheimer’s, we think that her cognitive stability could have been attributed to her ...

Bengaluru: Gene editing techniques may one day allow for the removal of the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome, early experiments suggest. Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, is caused by the ...