When pregnant television newsreader Fiona Wilson was told, following a routine scan, that she had more chance of winning the Lottery than having a baby with Down's syndrome, she felt reassured ...

One Monday morning, Ms Krist Ng received a call from the hospital and the nurse on the line said her baby had a 50 per cent chance of having Down syndrome. Stunned, the volunteer manager at a social ...

The goal is to reuse key parts of the treatment and simply swap in a custom set of instructions for each patient's specific gene mutation, doctors say.

Down's syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in the cells of a developing baby. It is not hereditary. It is the most common cause of severe mental disability and is often ...