The NYTimes published an article and a podcast on prenatal screening. Unfortunately, they botched many of the facts about NIPS and how it should be used.

Noninvasive prenatal screening, using cell-free fetal DNA circulating in maternal blood, offers an early method of detecting certain fetal chromosomal abnormalities. As a new technology, many ...

We assessed the usefulness of high-resolution noninvasive prenatal screening across 14 pregnancies that had been referred for standard-care diagnostic procedures and detected 100% of the variants ...

Noninvasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, is a way of screening your unborn baby for certain genetic conditions. Learn more about what to expect from NIPT.

The result confirms that noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) outperforms second-trimester serum screening (STSS) in accuracy and cost-effectiveness, as NIPT identifies twice as many DS cases as STSS.

Purpose: Currently, the American Colleges of Medical Genetics and Obstetrics and Gynecology recommend screening in the prenatal setting only for individuals with specific family history indicators.

The reported delays came after California health officials changed regulations governing the state’s prenatal testing program. On Sept. 19, without holding the public hearing that is usually ...

Newborn genetic screening (NBGS) seeks to assist in the early identification of newborns at risk for severe genetic disorders. The integration of genomics into newborn screening represents a ...