In Down Syndrome a Link to Cancer

Word is out to the general public about the intriguing finding by researchers in the late Judah Folkman's lab at Boston Childrens'. "Scientists discovered that the extra chromosome carried by people with Down syndrome - which causes the condition's distinctive features - harbors a gene responsible for starving tumors of the blood [cancer cells] need to survive and flourish. Here is the article in the Boston Globe, but the article originally appeared in May 29 Nature