In December 2022, the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics made a recommendation that all expectant mothers should be offered non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) instead of traditional ...

As hopeful parents start their reproductive journeys, they may be offered a variety of tests and screenings, which can be opportunities to learn more about their own health ...

Imagine this: You just found out that you or your partner are pregnant, and your overwhelmed with emotions. You start thinking about prenatal vitamins, making your first provider appointment, car ...

A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a non-invasive genetic test that can ...

Yourgene Health (part of the Novacyt group of companies), a leading international molecular diagnostics group, today announced the launch of IONA ® Care+, a fully comprehensive non-invasive prenatal ...

Yourgene Health installs first NIPT platform, the IONA test, in Morrocco, enabling Laboriad to offer safe, fast and accurate prenatal testing to expectant parents ...

An operating room technician performs an ultrasound on a patient at an abortion clinic in Shreveport, La., July 6, 2022. Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of ...

In 2013, researchers reported an eye-opening case of a healthy pregnant woman with a puzzling prenatal test result. A routine genetic screen using cell-free DNA—a highly accurate blood test—suggested ...

Researchers have developed a non-invasive genetic test that can screen the blood of pregnant individuals to survey all genes from the fetal genome. A team of investigators from Massachusetts General ...