Blood Test for Down's ; How Dna of Baby in the Womb Can Be Checked Without Risking a Miscarriage

Daily MailFebruary 02, 2007

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A SIMPLE blood test for Down's syndrome has been developed that does not risk causing a miscarriage.

At the moment, both tests for the syndrome use a needle to take cells directly from the womb. They carry a one per cent chance of miscarriage.

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Blood Test for Down's ; How Dna of Baby in the Womb Can Be Checked Without Risking a Miscarriage

But doctors have developed a safer test which extracts the developing child's DNA from the mother's blood.

Researchers took blood samples from 60 pregnant women a...

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