Reproductive Health
News on noninvasive prenatal testing, carrier screening, and preimplantation genetic screening.
Pacific Biosciences Helps Launch Sequencing-Based Fertility Research Consortium in Asia
The consortium, led by Singapore's KK Women's and Children's Hospital, will use a federated data platform from Canadian bioinformatics firm DNAstack.
Ovarian Aging Study Finds Rare Variant Contributors With Ties to DNA Damage Response, Cancer
Using exome sequence data for postmenopausal UK Biobank participants, researchers focused on genes containing rare variants linked to age at natural menopause.
BillionToOne Inks $140M Financing Agreement With Oberland Capital
The company said the funds will help it shore up its plans to reach profitability and supplant the need for additional financing rounds.
NIH Awards $2.4M to Improve Syphilis Diagnostics
The 10 awards cover different novel diagnostic approaches as well as biomarker discovery and pre-analytical methods.
Postpartum Hemorrhage-Linked Loci Identified in Large GWAS, Meta-Analysis
Data for nearly 331,800 women from northern European cohorts helped researchers flag five postpartum hemorrhage-associated loci for subsequent functional analyses.