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Hello from CdLS Germany!
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...
SickKids scientist calls for ‘national strategy’ to get genome sequencing covered in Canada
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...
Researchers describe new functions of protein that play key role in some tumors and rare diseases
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...
Lawmakers Look To Jump-Start Employment For Transition-Age Youth
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...
Small, but mighty: Child handles rare syndrome head-on
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...
How on-campus retail jobs help students with disabilities
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 is one...
Caring for Luke: Portsmouth family raises CdLS awareness
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 to...
New Blood Test May Help Diagnose Prader-Willi Syndrome, Other Complex Disorders
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...
‘I heard 3 things when he was finally out: ‘He’s here, he’s breathing, and he has a TON of hair!’ What a joyful moment. I say moment – because the joy only lasted that long.’
“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...
A message on Rare Disease Day
Dear CdLS Community, On this day - February 28th - the rarest day of the year, we take a moment from our daily lives to bring awareness about our community and what it means to live with a rare syndrome or disease. I had the opportunity yesterday to listen to a panel...
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