Objective: To integrate the findings of qualitative studies of expectant parents receiving
positive prenatal diagnosis. Data Sources: Seventeen published and unpublished reports …

The progress of genetic engineering in the 1970s brought about a paradigm shift in genome
editing technology. The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR …

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively determine the diagnostic accuracy of massively parallel
sequencing to detect whole chromosome fetal aneuploidy from maternal plasma …

Updated to reflect the newest changes in genetics, Thompson & Thompson's Genetics in
Medicine returns as one of the most favored texts in this fascinating and rapidly evolving …

" Working memory" is a term used to refer to the systems responsible for the temporary
storage of information during the performance of cognitive tasks. The efficiency of working …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Saudi Arabia has a high prevalence of hereditary
hemoglobin disorders. Data has been collected by the Saudi Premarital Screening and …

Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means
to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis …

Recent evidence has shown that amniotic fluid may be a novel source of fetal stem cells for
therapeutic transplantation. We previously developed a two-stage culture protocol to isolate …

BACKGROUND Prenatal diagnosis in pregnancies at risk of single-gene disorders is
currently performed using invasive methods such as chorionic villus sampling and …

Maternal serum screening for neural tube defects and fetal aneuploidy in the second
trimester has been incorporated into obstetrical practice over the past two decades. Now, as …