Your baby has officially graduated this week from embryo to fetus, and with that change are a whole bunch of others happening in his development.
If ...
The mission of genetics is to help people have a better knowledge of their own health and of the future of their children, providing physicians and families wit...
Week 9 of your pregnancy may not feel much different than week 8. But your baby is almost fully developed in miniature, and ready to continue growing.
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The basic building blocks of your baby’s body are almost in place.
This week will mark the end of your baby’s embryonic stage. This means that the basic buildi...
New genetic technologies hold great promise in their potential to treat patients based on their individual genetic information. Advances in mapping the human ge...
Prenatal diagnosis is the set of techniques used to detect fetal anomalies. Although most of them do not have treatment during pregnancy, their knowledge is of ...
Microdeletions are a group of clinically recognisable genetic disorders characterised by a small deletion of a chromosomal segment spanning multiple disease gen...
Recent technological advances are enabling the development of new screening tests that make medical procedures less invasive and more affordable.
Indeed, new m...
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that encompasses a set of cognitive and physical symptoms caused by the presence of an additional copy of chromosome 21 and ...
The UK National Screening Committee advises pregnant women to attend a non-invasive screening test (NIPT) to detect the presence of Down Syndrome, and pleads fo...
The Spanish insurance company Divina Pastora has included in its coverage policies the Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for trisomies and sexual aneuploides...
