Saturday, April 11, 2009

The isolation of circulating fetal cells

The isolation of circulating fetal cells, such as nucleated red
cells and trophoblasts from maternal blood offers a potential
method for detecting genetic disorders in the fetus by a noninvasive
procedure. This method could play an important role
in prenatal screening for aneuploidy in the fetus, either as an
independent test, or more likely, in conjunction with other tests
such as ultrasonography and biochemical screening.

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