HAMILTON: Stephens' goal is to help scientists find a drug that can defeat Alzheimer's. STEPHENS: That would be amazing. And I hope that not only people with Down syndrome can take it, but also ...

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have identified signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the eyes of people with Down syndrome using ultrawide-field imaging ...

Down syndrome research should look at the whole cell not just the extra chromosome, scientists say. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 12 ...

A donor heart saved Charlotte Woodward's life 13 years ago. Now Woodward, 35, is fighting for others with Down syndrome or ...

The abnormalities in Tina's ear are known only in people with Down syndrome, making the fossil the earliest-known evidence of the genetic condition. Scientists say that, to survive for six years ...

By Carl Zimmer Scientists have diagnosed Down syndrome from DNA in the ancient bones of seven infants, one as old as 5,500 years. Their method, published in the journal Nature Communications ...

In the latest such research at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Alana Down Syndrome Center at MIT, scientists found that 40Hz sensory stimulation improved cognition and circuit ...

Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal caregiving that likely helped the child survive to the age of 6 ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. For 10 years, a woman with Down syndrome defied what many scientists believed to be an inevitability. Despite carrying the neuropathological ...

CBD and diabetes drug alleviate symptoms of Fragile X syndrome, claim scientists Down syndrome is linked to a range of physical and mental impairments, including inner ear malformations.

not only represents the earliest-known evidence of Down syndrome but, according to scientists, hints at compassionate caregiving in these extinct archaic humans - close cousins to our own species.

"It is very hard to see." Also, as a person with Down syndrome, Stephens knows that he is likely to develop Alzheimer's much earlier than his mother did. So he raises money for Alzheimer's ...