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Sadly, Tay-Sachs disease is incurable, although it is undergoing plenty of research by scientists, neurologists, pediatricians, medical geneticists, and ophthalmologists.

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Tay-Sachs is a fatal disease which attacks and kills brain and spinal cells until death. Generally, this disease affects a certain ancestry-- Eastern Europeans, and they're also mostly Jewish. It slows development of growth and intelligence greatly around 6 months of age, makes sufferers incredibly weak, causes loss of hearing and/or seeing or talking, and also makes one very faint.

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Tay-Sachs can be detected through a blood test. If the Hex-A enzyme is present, this means you will be diagnosed with the disease, but a confirmation of which may be extracting DNA and checking for the HEXA mutation.

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Tay-Sachs is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. This means that when both parents are carriers, it gives the child a 25% chance of inheriting the disease.

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Also called GM2 gangliosidosis. Tay-Sachs Disease is a very rare, hereditary disease that originated around the early 20's, and was named after W. Tay (british physician) and B. Sachs (US Neurologist). Tay-Sachs is a disorder in which destroys brain and spinal cells until death, and while there is no cure, sufferers tend to survive until averagely age 4.