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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced today that their researchers, together with others at Stanford University have developed a new test that can accurately detect Down Syndrome (or the so-called Trisomy 21) as well as two other chromosomal aberrations that can cause serious birth defects.
Currently, two methods are mainly used in prenatal diagnostics to detect [...]
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