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

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 ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. William A. Haseltine, Ph.D., covers genomics and regenerative medicine Non-invasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, now shapes critical ...

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 ...

Expecting mothers typically opt for prenatal genetic testing during their first and third trimesters. Performed with a sample of the mother's blood, this test looks for fetal aneuploidy, an abnormal ...