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Article: New tests for down syndrome, preterm labor: experimental technologies diagnose Down syndrome and assess amniotic fluid to predict preterm delivery.(Obstetrics)
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- OB GYN News
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- April 15, 2005
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RENO, NEV. -- New technologies that can screen through the entire metabolite or protein compliment of a fluid will soon produce both a test that can correctly identify the patient experiencing early contractions who will deliver prematurely, and a maternal blood test perhaps 100% accurate for Down syndrome, predicted two speakers at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
These tests could be ready for the clinic in a few years, the speakers said.
In much the same way that researchers can study genomics to identify all the genes in a particular cell, and RNA transcriptomics to identify specific genes being expressed in a cell, it ...