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.

Mosaic Down syndrome has some cells with three copies of chromosome 21, and some with two instead of all three. Only about 1% ...

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 ...

A new study identifies distinct molecular and immune subtypes across individuals with Down syndrome, offering new insights that could lead to personalized medicine approaches for the clinical ...

New research suggests a missing brain molecule may hold the key to understanding – and potentially treating – the faulty neural circuits seen in Down syndrome. Restoring the molecule, called ...

Nicky Clark is a nutritional therapist in Australia who has been giving personalized nutrition advice to the parents of children with Down syndrome. She's given talks about nutrition for 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 ...