#prenataltesting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #prenataltesting, aggregated by home.social.
-
Opinion | I.V.F., Gene Selection and Embryo Screening: Is This the Future of Making Babies?
When Noor Siddiqui was growing up, her mother developed retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that leads to gradual vision…
#NewsBeep #News #Genetics #CA #Canada #GeneticsandHeredity #GenomicHealthInc #InVitroFertilization #IntellectualDisabilities #OrchidBiosciencesInc #PolygenicScreening #PrenatalTesting #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/11557/ -
"I knew that I had to start from scratch and wanted to try something more innovative and unusual. For the previous eight years, I worked on circulating cells, but now turned to blood and plasma. Scientifically, it was a very exciting time. I remember when we first looked at maternal plasma and saw that we could detect cell-free DNA, I could not believe my eyes. All these years, we were looking in the wrong place. It was just amazing that we could take a few drops of plasma and boil it for five minutes and get a signal that was so robust."
Dennis Lo, J Clin Inv