Pregnant women can have prenatal testing performed during their pregnancies to determine whether or not their baby could have certain disorders. Two types of tests are chorionic villus sampling (CVS) ...

With the PrenaTest®, Europe’s first non-invasive prenatal test for the determination of the most common chromosomal disorders in unborn children, launched in 2012, LifeCodexx has been changing ...

Two of the world's largest professional societies of human geneticists have issued a joint position statement on the promise and challenges of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a new procedure to ...

SALT LAKE CITY & SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARUP Laboratories, a leading national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory, and Natera, a leading innovator in reproductive and ...

Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) on pregnant women to detect the risk of a fetus having rare genetic abnormalities may often be wrong, according to recent reports. These tests, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alessandro Marcon works at the University of Alberta's Health Law Institute, which has received funding related to this project from Genome Canada, Genome Alberta, and CIHR. Vardit Ravitsky receives ...

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 ...

This month the Dutch TRIDENT studies aiming at responsible implementation of the Non-Invasive Prenatal Test (NIPT) in the Netherlands will end. As a result of the positive outcomes of these studies, ...

Stephanie Nicklow hopes to raise awareness and share her son's health journey with the world ...