For the first time, an astronaut with a disability has been cleared for a mission ... McFall noted that as part of this work they have already developed some technologies that will “trickle down and ...

Learn how astronauts can lose bone density and how muscles can weaken. As we continue to explore space, NASA is looking into ...

A century after Down syndrome was first described, scientists discovered that the root cause of this disorder is a condition called trisomy 21. What strides in research have been made since then?

After his best friend from high school had a daughter with Down syndrome, immunologist Dusan Bogunovic of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York pored over decades of research to ...