by Gabbie Nadeau | Sep 4, 2019 | Media Room, Uncategorized
Dear Ms. Spigarolo, Mr. Kraft and the New England Patriots Team: I want to extend a sincere thank you, on behalf of all families with children with special needs, for providing access to enjoy your training camp. This year was even more important and special for our...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Aug 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS: I had the pleasure of representing us at the CdLS International Conference last weekend in Europe. It was a bittersweet experience to say goodbye to our friends around the world who are part of our CdLS Family. It was thrilling to see families...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jun 24, 2019 | Research News
The U.K. will pay for children with mysterious rare disorders and their parents to have their entire genomes sequenced — Canadian scientists want the same The U.K. is rolling out a program in which all seriously ill children without a diagnosis will be able to get...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jun 24, 2019 | Research News
by The Spanish National Cancer Research Centre Two mouse embryonic stem cells in which two Polycomb regions from different chromosomes (HoxC, green; HoxD, red) appear next to each other (arrows). Cohesin-SA2 promotes this type of contacts between distant Polycomb...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Jun 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
by Shaun Heasley | June 12, 2019 With a bipartisan proposal, members of Congress are pushing a new plan to increase competitive, integrated employment for young people with developmental disabilities. A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this month...
by Gabbie Nadeau | May 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
LEWISTOWN — Marckis Mountz is a sweet and bubbly 4, soon to be 5-year-old little boy whose smile lights up the room. He lives in Lewistown with his parents, Jana and Ken Mountz. He is the youngest of seven children; two remain at home with him and four are adults. He...
by Gabbie Nadeau | May 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Deep within a labyrinth of offices at Wright Junior High School, eighth-grader Mikayla Needlman gently knocks on Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103 Superintendent Scott Warren’s door. Warren quickly opens up and smiles at his young visitor. Mikayla...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Karen Dandurant news@seacoastonline.com PORTSMOUTH — May 11 is awareness day for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. The Lyons family of Portsmouth knows all about it. Their son Luke, now 11, was born with CdLS, which has variations from mild...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Apr 16, 2019 | Research News
A new blood test called EpiSign may help identify complex and hard-to-diagnose genomic imprinting disorders such as Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). EpiSign, available in two versions, can diagnose 19 complex disorders. This newly available diagnostic tool, which...
by Gabbie Nadeau | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
“We had waited 10 weeks to see our beautiful baby on the ultrasound screen again. Do to an insurance issue preventing us from getting any scans between 20 and 30 weeks, naturally my anxiety was overwhelmingly high that morning of our 30-week scan, the morning our...
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