This isn’t exactly fresh news anymore, but it’s still worth a look. Turns out that people with DS may help cure cancer.
“Most people don’t appreciate the fact that these individuals with Downs potentially hold a secret that might lead to quite substantial and revolutionary new treatments for cancer,” said Dr. David Sweetser, who treats patients and researches cancer at MassGeneral Hospital for Children but was not involved in the Downs project. “The obvious hope is that this is going to give us information to help develop a tool that we could use to treat a whole variety of solid tumors.”
See the whole article at http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/01/childrens_hospital_researchers_find_down_syndrome_gene_starves_tumor_growth/
