Non-invasive prenatal screening techniques can detect chromosomal abnormalities including Down syndrome (Trisomy 21), Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18), and Patau syndrome (Trisomy 13). These ...

For more than two decades, the ultimate quest for scientists and clinicians studying prenatal genetics was the capture of an intact fetal cell non-invasively so that its fetal DNA could be directly ...

A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a non-invasive genetic test that can ...

Researchers have developed a non-invasive genetic test that can screen the blood of pregnant individuals to survey all genes from the fetal genome. A team of investigators from Massachusetts General ...

WHEN NON-INVASIVE prenatal testing (NIPT) arrived in 2011, it transformed pregnancy. With a simple blood test, scientists could now sweep a mother’s bloodstream for scraps of placental DNA, uncovering ...

Pregnancy care is now being transformed from its traditional, observational monitoring approach into a proactive, ...

MANCHESTER, England & BOGOTÁ, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yourgene Health (part of the Novacyt group of companies), a leading international molecular diagnostics ...

A research team has developed an innovative screening test. With a blood sample from the expectant mother, they can scrutinize all the genes in the fetus. The findings indicate that the new test, ...

Yourgene Health (part of the Novacyt group of companies), a leading international molecular diagnostics group, today announced the launch of IONA ® Care+, a fully comprehensive non-invasive prenatal ...

Imagine this: You just found out that you or your partner are pregnant, and your overwhelmed with emotions. You start thinking about prenatal vitamins, making your first provider appointment, car ...