Baby Genomes!!

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have for the first time sequenced the genome of an unborn baby using only a blood sample from the mother.

Read the full Science Daily article HERE.

Read the full Nature article HERE.

H. Christina Fan, Wei Gu, Jianbin Wang, Yair J. Blumenfeld, Yasser Y. El-Sayed & Stephen R. Quake. Non-invasive prenatal measurement of the fetal genome. Nature, July 4, 2012 DOI: 10.1038/nature11251