It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

The genetic cause for the most common type of hearing loss in children with Down syndrome has been identified in mice by researchers at UCL, the Francis Crick Institute and MRC Harwell Institute.

That’s because people with Down’s syndrome, who have an extra copy of chromosome 21, produce increased amounts of beta-amyloid, a protein that is implicated as a possible cause of Alzheimer’s.