Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities: News and Research on Down Syndrome

MeSH tree: C16.131.260.260

Missing molecule holds clues to Down syndrome

New research suggests a missing brain molecule may hold the key to understanding—and potentially treating—the faulty neural circuits seen in Down syndrome. Restoring the molecule, called pleiotrophin, could enhance brain ...

When mom and dad's DNA don't match up, the embryo finds a way

When a sperm meets an egg, a lot has to go right for an embryo to develop into a complete organism. One critical step of early development is the reorganization of parental DNA to form a new unified genome, before the embryo ...

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