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Article: AMNIOCENTESIS FINDS DEFECTS.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1986
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Byline: Knight-Ridder Newspapers
The most widely used tool for predicting the condition of a developing human fetus is amniocentesis, a procedure in which amniotic fluid is withdrawn from a woman's uterus to study the cells shed into it by her baby. Scientists first experimented with the procedure more than 30 years ago as a means of determining the gender of a fetus. Its use for predicting birth defects, begun in the early 1970s, has exploded in recent years.
"In 1974, we did 25 (amniocenteses)," said Dr. Paul Benke, a geneticist in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami-Mailman Center for Child Development. "Last year, I think we did ...
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