Is there a cure for Down syndrome?

Medical books and references state that genetic and chromosomal disorders are difficult to treat radically and that there is no definitive treatment for them so far. This applies to the case of Down syndrome.

Perhaps one of the best things that can be achieved in treating Down syndrome is early intervention in treating children and infants with Down syndrome using the precursors of stem cells, which made a difference in increasing their ability to enjoy normal life as possible. In addition, with regular periodic examination for common medical problems and provision of appropriate family environment, along with the appropriate vocational training, we get great results in the treatment of Down syndrome.

Many children with Down syndrome in Germany, Spain, Russia and the United States of America before 1957 have already been treated by stem cell therapy before the age of thirteen years. The results have shown a statistically significant improvement in height, intelligence, concentration, speech, motor skills, and the immune system. With the successive treatment with stem cell progenitors, which is carried out at an early stage, the typical features of Down syndrome become less clear and immune deficiencies are corrected.

In general, Down syndrome is one of the many cases that have responded significantly to the treatment of stem cell progenitors, as more than five thousand patients have been successfully treated.

It is worth noting that human body contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of which comes from the father and the other from the mother. Down syndrome, results from the presence of an extra copy of chromosome number 21 or part of it, which leads to mental and physical weakness and is characterized by special features such as small chin, large tongue, roundness of the face. there is a high possibility that Down syndrome children suffer from several diseases such as thyroid diseases, reflux esophagitis and inflammation in ears.

Some scientists have been able to stop the extra chromosome activity that causes Down syndrome, which opens the door to great hope in the possibility of treating this genetic abnormality. A group of cytologists from Massachusetts University in the United States was able to stop the third chromosome in the 21st chromosome pair that causes this syndrome. According to researchers, the results they obtained could constitute the first step on the way to treating Down syndrome.

Jane Lawrence, head of the group, says, “We have made a lot of progress in the field of treating Down syndrome over the past ten years. On the other hand, modifying the work of hundreds of genes inside the chromosome was considered a fantasy and out of reality. We hope that our experience will open the way for the study of Down syndrome today, as well as chromosomal treatment In the future.”

The working group was able to turn off the work of genes located on the third chromosome in pair 21, which is found in the cells of people with Down syndrome, by using a special gene called (the XIST gene), and biologists say that this gene is used by the female mammalian bodies to stop the work of the second copy of the X chromosome in the human genome.