It is an uncomfortable question that, in today’s world, is often asked by expectant mothers who had more than one male partner at the time they became pregnant. Who is the father?
A Noninvasive Test to Determine Paternity in Pregnancy
A non-invasive test for prenatal diagnosis based on fetal DNA present in maternal blood: a preliminary study Use of free fetal DNA to diagnose fetal chromosomal abnormalities has been hindered by the inability to distinguish fetal DNA from maternal DNA. Our aim was to...
Methods to Increase the Percentage of Free Fetal DNA Recovered From the Maternal Circulation Noninvasive prenatal diagnostic tests using free fetal DNA provide an alternative to invasive tests and their attendant risks; however, free fetal DNA exists in the maternal...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) -- Knowing the paternity of a child is a piece of information that many take for granted. But for some, it is a terrible burden of uncertainty. Thousands of rape victims become pregnant every year, and not knowing who the father of their child...
By Maureen SalamonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Finding out who the father is in paternity cases may become easier with the emergence of a simple blood test for women that can be given in the first trimester of pregnancy. The paternity...
Experts Say the Test Has Important Medical, Legal Applications May 2, 2012 -- Researchers say they've found a way to identify the father of a baby as early as the eighth week of pregnancy. The new method, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, uses fetal DNA...
In 2008, our Prenatal DNA Paternity technology was used in the prosecution of the Michael Roseboro murder trial of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Click the link to the right to see a description of how our Non-invasive Prenatal DNA Paternity Test was used in this...
Ventilating room ‘reduces cot death risk’ A new blood test could tell a pregnant woman if her unborn child has Down’s syndrome, scientists say. The technique, tested at Stanford University in the United States, is designed to look for tell-tale chromosome fragments in...
Life was proceeding as planned for Ravinder Dhallan, or so it seemed. Having earned doctorates in medicine and biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, he had just started a radiation oncology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. On the home front...
It's noninvasive, but don't expect to see it on the market soon By Amanda GardnerHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new, noninvasive method of prenatal testing may one day help to detect birth defects in unborn babies. But it'll be a while...
A new blood test uses scraps of fetal DNA to piece together a prenatal diagnosis. In January, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that all pregnant women have access to Down’s syndrome screening, which in the past was advised only for...
LONDON (Reuters) - A new non-invasive test that examines fetal DNA can pick up genetic abnormalities such as Down’s syndrome, researchers said on Friday. Unlike more intrusive tests that may raise the risk of miscarriage, the new diagnostic tool developed by the US...
Scientists have found a way to maximise the amount of DNA from an unborn baby they can take from the mother's blood.They hope the technique will aid the development of more effective non-invasive tests to determine whether a baby has genetic abnormalities. Read Full...