Genetics is a field that offers many possibilities to improve the quality of life of future babies, in fact, the advances in this field are spectacular. On this occasion, researchers from the Center for Genomic Regulation and Pompeu Fabra University have just developed an effective tool with which they can detect possible abnormalities in fetuses, it is a DNA biochip capable of accurately and quickly detecting more than 200 genetic alterations.
The new Biochip will alert parents and specialists about possible problems that may affect the baby and consequently the most viable alternatives, treatment, termination of pregnancy, etc. will be considered, everything will depend on the problem and the degree of incidence of the alteration genetics. Prenatal diagnosis is something necessary and effective and more when using these types of tools that are much more effective than those currently available. Its resolution power is impressive, surpassing said resolution almost a hundred times and detecting what other tests would not be able to detect, in addition, in just four days the results of the tests are obtained, unlike the 2 or 3 weeks needed in other detection systems
The new DNA Biochip contemplates all genomic locations that are involved in the possible known and verified chromosomal alterations, that is, those that are clearly related to serious or incurable diseases. As we said, up to 200 genetic alterations are contemplated, some of them of very little incidence, a case of every 10,000.
What is very interesting is the possibility of including new diseases of a genetic nature, thus widening its field of action and reducing the possibilities of genetic abnormalities in children, it does not take long for genetic diseases to go down in history and stop Truncate the lives of many people.
