Chorionic villus sampling is a prenatal diagnostic test performed for prenatal genetic testing involving a biopsy of placental tissue between 10 to 13 weeks gestation. The tissue harvested is the ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process that turns their information into a biological function may depend on the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Testing for genetic defects early in pregnancy through chorionic villus sampling, or CVS, does not appear to raise the risk of fetal loss. CVS involves using a needle to ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process that turns their information into a biological function may depend on the ...

Our team of maternal-fetal medicine specialists and prenatal genetic counselors have extensive training and experience in prenatal genetic testing. Providers throughout the Mountain West regularly ...

Yury Verlinsky, the Russian emigre who was the first researcher in the United States to perform chorionic villus sampling to detect birth defects and who pioneered the development of pre-implantation ...

Shown is a universal method for rapid aneuploidy screening of reproductive specimens with the use of short-read transpore rapid karyotyping (STORK). Tissues and cells from chorionic villus sampling ...

Dr. Susan Dalton specializes in maternal-fetal medicine, caring for patients throughout the entire spectrum of high-risk pregnancies. With advanced training in fetal diagnosis and treatment, Dr.

Trophoblasts, cells present during development in the fetus and placenta that also circulate in a pregnant woman’s bloodstream, could potentially be used for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis, according ...

Genetic services in the UK have developed over many years to a highly integrated network of diagnostic testing and clinical counselling. The services have been organised and funded on a regional basis ...