Down syndrome is a genetic disease caused by three major factors, genetics, chromosome formation and cell division. Through scientific research, scientists have made vast discoveries on how to “treat” people with the disease and how to help families cope with a child with Down syndrome. Through our research we hope to make more people aware ...
A cancer occurs when a cell or cells abnormally divide when they should not. Cells are the body’s basic unit of life. Examples of cells in the body are red blood cells, muscle cells (sometimes called muscle fibers), and bone cells (osteocytes). Each type of cell can join or combine with another same type of ...
Down syndrome is the result of an extra copy of chromosome 21. There are 23 sets of chromosomes in the average, healthy, “normal” person, with two chromosomes present per set. Therefore, people with Down syndrome have three chromosomes 21, and forty-seven chromosomes in total, as opposed to the forty-six found in most people. This extra, ...
Most people know that living organisms increase in size through cell division. Cell division is a term referred to how cells in the body are constantly involved in a series of replication and divisions of the existing cells to make new cells because cells, like organisms, do not live forever. The old cells are replaced ...
Mitosis is the process of cell division that results in two cells identical to the original parent cell. Mitosis is made up of multiple stages that are characterized by the position of the chromosomes inside the cells. Interphase is the stage the cell is in when it is not undergoing mitosis. The cell undergoes normal ...