Prenatal down syndrome assay available

(ANSA) – Rome, September 30 JUL – mid-August in Switzerland, Austria and Germany will be available a new and controversial prenatal testing that lets you know with certainty in the third quarter if the child suffers from Down syndrome. The Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung said am Sonntag that some patients associations accuse tests like this to “promote eugenics”. The PrenaTest, developed by the German company LifeCodexx, is based on the sequencing of the genome of the unborn child. All rights reserved