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Genetics. It turned out to be more complicated than we thought.
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Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Testing Finds Cancer in Some Pregnant People

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By Rachel Feltman, Laura Hercher, Fonda Mwangi , Alex Sugiura
| Scientific American
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. This testing searches a pregnant person’s blood for fragments of DNA that have been shed by the placenta. NIPT is designed to spot chromosomal disorders in the fetus, but in rare cases the blood tests can detect something else: cancer in the parent.
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A Prenatal Test of the Fetus Turns Up Cancers in Pregnant Mothers Original

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By Laura Hercher
| Scientific American
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 was a pregnant woman who had opted for noninvasive prenatal testing, or NIPT, a screen for Down syndrome and a handful of other conditions that had been on the market for only two years.
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Controversial New Guidelines Would Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear

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By Laura Hercher
| Scientific American
It is impossible, of course, to identify the precise moment we first suspected the changes in my mother were something other than normal aging. In my own imperfect memory, what rises up is the first morning of a weeklong trip to Rome, when my mother woke up at 2 A.M., got dressed and went down for breakfast. A hotel employee found her wandering from room to room, looking for toast and coffee. She was jet-lagged, my brother and I assured each other uneasily. It could happen to anyone.
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