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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On Friday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced his choice of running mate in the upcoming election. Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, and a mom of five children, and if the Republicans win the election, she’ll be our first female Vice President.
Palin has five children, Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig. Her oldest, [...]
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