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New research finds that a genetic defect test performed during early pregnancy appears to increase the chances that a baby will be born with an infantile hemangioma, or birthmark.Chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, which can be performed as early as 10 weeks into pregnancy, uses a needle to collect samples of embryonic material that goes on to form the placenta. It provides cells of fetal origin that can then be examined for chromosomal defects.Dr. Lewis B. Holmes of Massachusetts General...
A "chip" or array that can quickly detect disorders such as Down syndrome or other diseases associated with chromosomal abnormalities proved an effective tool in prenatal diagnosis in a series of 300 cases at Baylor College of Medicine, said researchers in a report that appears in the current issue of the journal Prenatal Diagnosis.In the report, a team led by Dr. Arthur Beaudet and Dr. Sau Wai Cheung at BCM, described use of array comparative genomic hybridization to analyze...
Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) today announced the launch of an independent, prospective, multi-center observational study to document the performance of Sequenom's SEQureDx(TM) Trisomy 21 technology for Down syndrome based upon Sequenom's SEQureDx Technology. The study, RNA-based Noninvasive Aneuploidy (RNA), will be directed by Jacob Canick, Ph.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brown University Medical School, and Glenn Palomaki, Associate Director, Division of Medical...
Scientists say a prenatal blood test can determine if an unborn baby has Down's syndrome, without the risk to the fetus from past invasive testing methods, according to U.S. researchers. Stephen Quake led a team of researchers at Stanford University in California to create a way to look for the extra chromosomes that cause Down's and similar birth detects.Babies with Down's syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21, causing physical and intellectual impairments.The test also detects other...
Pregnant women worried about their babies' genetic health face a tough decision: get prenatal gene testing and risk miscarriage, or skip the tests and miss the chance to learn of genetic defects before birth. But a new prenatal test could make this dilemma obsolete. The new method, developed by scientists at Stanford University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, requires only a maternal blood sample to spot chromosomal disorders such as Down...
Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM), a leading provider of genetic-analysis and molecular diagnostic solutions, announced additional, positive results from screening studies using the Company's noninvasive circulating cell-free fetal (ccff) nucleic acid SEQureDx(TM) Technology, which enables the detection of fetal aneuploidy, including Down syndrome from maternal blood, at its Analyst Briefing in New York City. Among the data presented, Sequenom's test demonstrated complete concordance with clinical...
By Mary Jo Balasco / mbalasco@heraldonline.com Suzanne Pressley, 22 weeks pregnant with her second child, recently saw her unborn daughter in 3D and 4D - a type of ultrasound imaging that lets parents-to-be see a lifelike, three-dimensional view of their baby with movement. "Mommy! Mommy! The baby went like this!" Pressley's breathless 7- year-old daughter Joi An Holmes said, shaking her hand back and forth to mimic her unborn sister's movements. "Watch!" Pressley said to Joi An, pointing at...
By CAROLINE DOHACK Your obstetrician is there to make sure you and your baby are healthy from conception to delivery. That's why choosing the right doctor is important. "You want to choose an obstetrician with a practice style and personality that you're going to find compatible with you," said Mark Grant, maternal-fetal specialist at the Center for Maternal- Fetal Care. "There is no way to get that information other than to speak with other women who have had their delivery with various...
