In 2013 Susan Klugman, an obstetrician and geneticist who is currently president of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, got back test results that were “really weird.” Her patient ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For more than a decade noninvasive prenatal blood testing, or NIPT, has become a fairly routine aspect of pregnancy care.

Recent technological advances raise a pressing ethical question: Should prospective parents be able to acquire whatever genetic information they want about their fetus? One answer is yes, if parents ...

Eight studies reported the diagnostic accuracy of high-throughput NIPT for fetal RHD genotype, all of which were prospective studies carried out in European countries. Four studies were done in ...

Pregnancy is a journey filled with important decisions, and prenatal testing is one of them. Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) has become a popular choice for expectant parents seeking early ...