Nearly half of all babies born with Down syndrome face congenital heart defects, often involving serious malformations that require surgery in the first months of life. For decades, scientists have ...
World Down Syndrome Day: Down syndrome appears as a genetic disorder following abnormal cellular division which results in either an entire or partial additional chromosome 21. The body and brain ...
After decades of mystery, researchers at Gladstone Institutes identify a gene that can derail heart formation—and show that fixing it prevents the problem in mice. SAN FRANCISCO—October 22, ...
Imagine a world where the very building blocks of our DNA could be gently edited, removing what brings suffering, without erasing what makes us uniquely human. That’s exactly the kind of future ...