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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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 ...
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The first trimester of pregnancy is marked by an invisible, yet amazing transformation. Your body is going through enormous changes as it accommodates a gr...
Having a baby and feeling a new life developing inside your womb is a wonderful journey full of emotions, changes, enrichment and challenges.
During this perio...
Microdeletions are a group of clinically recognisable genetic disorders characterised by a small deletion of a chromosomal segment spanning multiple disease gen...
Fetal life has multisensory capacities before the brain is fully matured.
Recent years have seen increased exploration of the sensory development of the fetus....
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 ...
