Sequenom has been working on this for a while. They are well integrated into the major maternal/fetal centres in North America. If you google their name you will see the huge stock increases that have existed over the past year. There is a lot of money to be made in prenatal non-invasive genetic tests. Today it is the trisomies....what will it be tomorrow? Sequenom has an extremely savvy business plan. I don't know what it will take to wake people up to the future of genetics. Barb (Annie's mom) > From: karens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tri-Wings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [tri-med] Non-Invasive Direct Testing for Trisomy > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:28:55 +1100 > > Well its happened. No longer do women have to undergo amnio's to get a > trisomy diagnosis and its no longer just a trial. For $700 they can now test > the mothers blood and correctly identify a trisomy. No amnio risks etc. They > expect the cost to come down as its used more and when it does it will > probably mean that they will do away with prenatal screening. If you want a > copy of the article from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences > here is the link > http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/10/03/0808319105.full.pdf+html > Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. > -- Josh Billings > > Keep Looking For Rainbows!! > _--_|\ > /Karen \ > \ _.--._ / > v Karen, Mum to Alex (14 years, T-18 Mosaic) > http://members.optushome.com.au/karens > > Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows > www.trisomyonline.org > Families Helping Families On-line > _________________________________________________________________ Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows www.trisomyonline.org Families Helping Families On-line