Fetal Nucleic Acid Technology Offers Potential Alternative To Amniocentesis

... Research studies demonstrating the viability of an approach to routinely detect the presence of fetal DNA in a mother's blood to accurately diagnose or rule out genetic defects -- as early as the first trimester -- was presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine held in San Francisco. [click link for full article] ...