Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease -- aortic valve stenosis -- progresses differently in males and females.

While Emma has Down syndrome — specifically a rare type called Mosaic Down syndrome — some people don’t believe it. “At the ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Down syndrome is a common chromosomal disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21, leading to intellectual disabilities and ...

The learning ability of children with Down Syndrome may vary from child to child and it may typically range from mild to ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Dr Jérôme Lejeune, along with others at Raymond Turpin's laboratory, analysed the number of chromosomes from a child's tissue samples to discover the existence of the extra copy of chromosome 21 in ...

The geroscience hypothesis holds that targeting molecular pathways that drive aging can give us more healthy years. Evidence ...

The ovary is the female gonad, which houses egg cells. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, and each egg is ...

On March 21, Kuwait joined the global community in marking World Down Syndrome Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness ...

Trump misstated $8 million spent on transgender mice, sparking debate on transgenic research and its importance in science.

A young British woman who used to drink 12 cups of coffee a day and quit because of some caffeine withdrawal symptoms like severe headaches was diagnosed with grade three oligodendroglioma—a type of ...