growingyourbabyMay 11, 2025
Could Your Baby Arrive Early? This Test Might Tell You Sooner Than Ever https://www.growingyourbaby.com/could-your-baby-arrive-early-this-test-might-tell-you-sooner-than-ever/ #prematurebaby #pregnancytest #prenataltesting #research
Could Your Baby Arrive Early? This Test Might Tell You Sooner Than Ever

Scientists discovered a way to forecast premature birth by examining gene activity in a pregnant person’s blood. Here’s how it works.

Growing Your Baby
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.Apr 29, 2025

People were less averse to #risk (d = 0.4) when making #prenatalTesting decisions in their SECOND #language — even when they seemed to understand the relevant information.

https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70016

#parenting #cogSci #medicine #genetics #edu #probability #stats #linguistics #econ

Thiago CarvalhoDec 19, 2022

"I knew that I had to start from scratch and wanted to try something more innovative and unusual. For the previous eight years, I worked on circulating cells, but now turned to blood and plasma. Scientifically, it was a very exciting time. I remember when we first looked at maternal plasma and saw that we could detect cell-free DNA, I could not believe my eyes. All these years, we were looking in the wrong place. It was just amazing that we could take a few drops of plasma and boil it for five minutes and get a signal that was so robust."

Dennis Lo, J Clin Inv

#PrenatalTesting #Lasker

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/166777

JCI - A conversation with Yuk Ming Dennis Lo