The team identified six cases of Down syndrome and one case of Edwards syndrome in human populations that were living in Spain, Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece from as long ago as 4,500 years before ...

Having a child with Down syndrome has been an irrational, unprovable good, writes. In a world of increasing mechanization, measurement and merit, people like my daughtern can help return us to our ...

The team identified six cases of Down syndrome and one case of Edwards syndrome in human populations that were living in Spain, Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece from as long ago as 4,500 years before ...

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

UC Davis researchers are leading a $5.5 million study to better understand how children with Down syndrome develop expressive ...

Source: Human Genome Project. Public domain. A recently released study finds that Europe has reduced the number of babies born with Down syndrome by 54%. In 2016, the same researchers found that the U ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Remains of individual “CRU001”, who the researchers discovered had Down syndrome. The remains were found at a site in Spain dating to the Iron Age. Photograph from the Government of Navarre and J.L.