It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

Debunking a myth, Bar-Ilan researcher says adults with Down syndrome and nonspecific intellectual disabilities improve their ...

Co-founder Gina Marie took over as executive director of Friends of Down Syndrome early this year after creating the ...

University of Glasgow research found young adults aged 25-34 with learning disabilities are nine times more likely to die ...

Sponsored by the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress — a nonprofit that represents more than 5,000 people living with Down syndrome throughout the state — the law has been a policy priority ...

That’s because people with Down’s syndrome, who have an extra copy of chromosome 21, produce increased amounts of beta-amyloid, a protein that is implicated as a possible cause of Alzheimer’s.

The easiest way to find out, they say, is to conduct clinical trials on people for whom the onset of Alzheimer’s is nearly guaranteed: those with Down’s syndrome. As the life expectancy of ...