A collaborative research study co-led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Liber Institute for Brain Development has for the first time identified a biological process that may help explain ...
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Dr. Jacquelyn Means knew that being pregnant in her late 30s would be challenging.
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What has long been interpreted as permanent and irreversible vascular damage may not be exclusively so. In people with Down syndrome—one of the most robust populations for studying Alzheimer's disease due to the near-universal ...
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Is it possible to draw conclusions about an adult's physical condition on the basis of their age? The answer is: "It depends." On the one hand, it is well known that the body's ability to function decreases with age, while ...
Mar 19, 2026
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Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, working with collaborators at Imperial College London and partners in Europe and the United States, have uncovered new insights into how an additional copy of chromosome 21 alters ...
Feb 26, 2026
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A research team led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London and University College London (UCL) has found new clues about how the brains of people with Down syndrome develop differently from a very early age. The ...
Feb 20, 2026
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When we talk about a biological clock ticking, it usually means the pressure women feel to get pregnant before a certain age. It's linked to the decline in eggs (ova) and fertility as females age.
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New research has revealed a confronting life-expectancy gap for people with intellectual disability in NSW, highlighting persistent and preventable inequities in health outcomes. The research, Life Expectancy of People with ...
Feb 4, 2026
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Children with Down syndrome have a significantly increased risk of leukemia, while adults have a lower risk of several common solid tumors, according to a new register study from Karolinska Institutet published in the British ...
Jan 28, 2026
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) have uncovered compelling evidence that individuals with Down syndrome experience significant alterations in liver ...
Jan 22, 2026
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