This genetic defect causes far more severe symptoms than Down syndrome, researchers said. The remains showed signs of severe abnormalities in bone growth, and the child died around 40 weeks gestation.

After his best friend from high school had a daughter with Down syndrome, immunologist Dusan Bogunovic of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York pored over decades of research to ...

Since the 1980s, the average life expectancy of a person with Down’s syndrome has more than doubled, from less than 30 to well into their 60s. Living longer, though, has revealed a tragic twist ...