New Blood Test for Down Syndrome
Date: 13.10.2008
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed a **new prenatal blood test** that accurately detected **Down syndrome** and two other serious chromosomal defects in a small study of 18 pregnant women. If confirmed in larger trials, they say, the test would offer a safer and faster alternative to invasive prenatal tests such as amniocentesis that pose a small risk of miscarriage.
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