Background: Current prenatal diagnosis requires invasive testing which carries a 1-4% procedure-related-risk of miscarriage; hence, non-invasive techniques are desired. The recent demonstration of cell-free-fetal-DNA enriched from maternal plasma has opened new possibilities for non-invasive-prenatal-diagnosis of not only genetic-disorders such as β-thalassaemia and haemophilia but also chromos...

Background: It is well documented that fetal DNA can cross the placenta and is present in peripheral maternal blood during pregnancy in human. This fetal DNA also named circulating cell free fetal DNA, has emerged as a valuable source for genetic evaluation. Compared with humans, ovine species have a different structure of placental (synepitheliochorial) with no direct contact between the troph...

El objetivo de este texto es analizar el monstruo femenino en film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Una chica vuelve a casa sola noche, 2014), Ana Lily Amirpour, exponiendo giro del arquetipo la mujer vampiro, para tratar tema violencia patriarcal y, mediante una serie referencias críticas teoría cine feminista, con figuras como Barbara Creed, Pilar Pedraza y Laura Mulvey, entre otras, entende...

Background and Aims: New advances in the use of cell-free fetal DNA (cffDNA) in maternal plasma of pregnant women has provided the possibility of applying cffDNA in prenatal diagnosis as a non-invasive method. One of the applications of prenatal diagnosis is fetal gender determination. Early prenatal determination of fetal sex is required for pregnant women at risk of X-linked and some endocrin...

Introdução: a Síndrome Alcoólica Fetal é caracterizada por um conjunto de alterações cognitivas, comportamentais, sistêmicas e orofaciais em crianças nascidas mulheres que fazem uso álcool durante gestação Objetivo: reconhecimento das bucais presentes na alcoólica fetal, fim orientar o cirurgião dentista no seu diagnóstico, assim como ações busquem melhorias para saúde geral bucal seus portador...

While vampires are proliferating in children’s and young adult literature, the increasingly popular werewolf figure also deserves attention, particularly given the intriguing links that particular authors draw between the werewolf and disability. These links are seen in not only the two works I discuss in this paper, but others as well (for example, in Howl’s Moving Castle, a man cursed into th...

hat kinds of moral objections are there to W such interventions as xenotransplantation, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering generally? Ethicists today often divide moral objections firmly into two sets, those that point to dangerous consequences and those saying that the act itself is intrinsically wrong. Of course this division between act and consequence is often useful. But unless the t...

the first step in the prenatal diagnosis of x-linked genetic disorders is determining fetus gender. current invasive methods to obtain the dna source of the fetus instead of its miscarriage risk, has harmful stress for high risk pregnancies. cell free fetal dna (cffdna) circulating in the maternal blood, has now become a useful source of noninvasive prenatal diagnosis. considering limitation of...