1 in 1,000 to 1 in 1,100 live births worldwide are children born with down syndrome. The United Nations notes that each year, approximately 3,000 to 5,000 children are born with this chromosome ...

Chromosome 6p25 deletion syndrome is a rare but significant genetic disorder that arises from a deletion affecting the terminal region of the short arm of chromosome 6. This region encompasses several ...

ANSWER: There are several types of mental defects that involve an extra chromosome. The most common is Down Syndrome. In 1866, an English doctor by the name of John Langdon Down published an essay in ...

Researchers led by UC Davis Health scientist Sanchita Bhatnagar have developed a promising gene therapy that could treat Rett syndrome. The therapy works on reactivating healthy but silent genes ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a suite of algorithms to automate the counting of sister ...