Blood Tests Ease Search for Down Syndrome

Blood Tests Ease Search for Down Syndrome

New powerful genetic techniques may provide an alternative to amniocentesis, which can cause miscarriages.

A New Blood Test for Down's Syndrome

Diagnosing Down's syndrome has just gotten easier. Researchers at Stanford University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Lucile Packard Hospital have developed a maternal blood test that offers a non invasive way to detect Down's syndrome and other chromosome disorders in the fetus.

Test for Down's syndrome developed

Test for Down's syndrome developed

Test for Down's syndrome developed

Test for Down's syndrome developed

New prenatal test for Down syndrome less risky than amniocentesis

By counting gene fragments in blood, test can detect chromosomal abnormalities

Noninvasive test for Down's syndrome developed by scientists

Scientists have developed a noninvasive tests for pregnant women to determine if their unborn baby has Down's syndrome.

Blood test for Down syndrome developed

A non-invasive blood test to determine if a fetus has Down syndrome early in pregnancy could be available in two or three years, researchers say.

New Prenatal Blood Tests To Diagnose Down Syndrome Could Replace Existing Invasive Procedures

Two separate research teams each have developed techniques for noninvasive prenatal blood tests for Down syndrome that have yet to produce a false negative or a false positive result, the New York Times reports.

Safer Down syndrome test devised

A PRENATAL blood test can determine if an unborn baby has Down syndrome without the risk to the fetus posed by invasive testing methods such as amniocentesis, US researchers say.

Girl with Down syndrome voted Homecoming Queen

Filed under: Teens & tweens, Education, Special needsWhile America waits on the edge of its seat to see who will win the Presidential election, teenagers everywhere are engaged in a much more "important" vote -- that of homecoming king and queen. Though Election 2008 may be anything but settled, high school homecoming results are usually far more predictable.

New Down's Syndrome test developed

A non-invasive test for mothers-to-be worried that their unborn child has Down's syndrome has been developed.

Researchers devise safer Down's syndrome test

If successful it would eliminate the small risk to the foetus posed by invasive testing methods

Down Syndrome Girl Is Homecoming Queen

Kirstin Pass, 18, was crowned homecoming queen at her Texas high school.

New Down's Syndrome test developed

A non-invasive test for mothers-to-be worried that their unborn child has Down's syndrome has been developed.

'Safer' test for Down's developed

Scientists develop a blood test that could tell pregnant women if their unborn baby has Down's syndrome.

Blood tests could eliminate Down's miscarriage risk

Thanks to two new genetic tests, a drop of mum's blood could soon be all it takes to tell whether an unborn baby has Down's syndrome