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Cell Biology
Animal models may shed light on pregnancy-associated progenitor cells
March 10th, 2005
According to a study from the United States, "Fetal cells in maternal blood are a potential source of fetal genetic material that can be obtained noninvasively." "Efforts to isolate these cells from maternal peripheral blood are limited by their low circulating numbers (approximately 1 per ml of maternal blood in euploid pregnancies). Expansion of these cells by culture would provide more cells for diagnosis and give an opportunity to study fetal metaphase chromosomes," said Diana W. Bianchi, MD, Tufts University. "Despite extensive optimization of culture conditions, many groups have failed reproducibly to grow fetal cells from pre-procedural...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-10)
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