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What is NIPT?
Non-invasive prenatal testing will be rolled out in the NHS next year. But how does it work? And what are the benefits?
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A genomic tool for better antenatal care
New report from maternity care trial puts focus on potential implementation of prenatal testing into the NHS
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Circulating cell free DNA in pregnancy and cancer
Improved understanding of plasma DNA is opening up new possibilities for non-invasive testing and diagnosis
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The role of genomics in assisted reproduction
As medical understanding of genetic variation increases, genomic technologies are providing hope for assisted reproduction
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Detecting Down syndrome with genomics
A major US study has shown that non-invasive prenatal testing performs better than invasive methods, but what about the UK?
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Making sense of mitochondrial disease
Updated: The UK has approved new techniques to fix problems in mitochondrial DNA. Here's how 'three-person IVF' will work