A developing fetus’s entire genome lurks in its mother’s blood, potentially offering prospective parents a non-invasive way of testing for any congenital disease. Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have mapped hundreds of thousands of DNA code variations spread across the genome of an unborn child in order to determine whether or not it would inherit a rare blood disorder.
via Scientific American.
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