But a groundbreaking study by Hefziba Lifshitz of Bar-Ilan University challenges that assumption, showing that individuals with Down syndrome as well as those with nonspecific intellectual ...

A century after Down syndrome was first described, scientists discovered that the root cause of this disorder is a condition called trisomy 21. What strides in research have been made since then?

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 ...