Jessica Biel shared a special moment with her niece.

Kirstin Czernek and her husband share four kids, three of whom were adopted. Their two younger children have Down syndrome, ...

Down syndrome affects around one in 640 children born in the US every year, and is the most common genetic cause of ...

Faulty brain circuits seen in Down syndrome may be caused by the lack of a particular molecule essential for the development and function of the nervous system, according to a new ...

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 ...

Three copies of chromosome 21 cause Down syndrome (DS), and roughly half of children born each year in the United States with ...

Nearly half of all babies born with Down syndrome face congenital heart defects, often involving serious malformations that ...

New research suggests a missing brain molecule may hold the key to understanding—and potentially treating—the faulty neural ...

Down syndrome and autism spectrum disorder can both involve a need for additional support. However, these are distinct diagnoses with different underlying causes and presentations. Down syndrome (DS) ...

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 ...