Dr. Aisha Sobey told Newsweek this content "marketizes identities as commodities," and "risks further entrenching ...

we’ve met adults with Down syndrome who can check boxes for successful student, accomplished athlete, productive employee, prom king or queen or husband or wife. And while scientific ...

In videos that are going viral on those platforms, typical facial features associated with Down syndrome are being superimposed over the faces of scantily clad women engaged in sexually suggestive ...

In the mid-1950s Marthe Gautier, a young French doctor and cytogenetics researcher, led a cutting-edge experiment to investigate the cause of Down syndrome. She painstakingly cultured cells in a ...

The researchers did not test how tissue from people without Down syndrome or without Alzheimer’s disease fared. But the scientific community will not have to wait long to see the effects of ...

Through their work on the islands of Puerto Rico, entrepreneur Chris González and model Sofía Jirau show that their potential is limitless despite growing up with Down syndrome. The couple has ...

Mackenzie’s photo was selected from more than 2,400 entries, according to a news release from the National Down Syndrome Society. Her photo will be one of about 500 photos of children ...

One in 800 children are born with Down syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. The vast majority of cases are caused by having three copies of chromosome 21 instead of two.