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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
 Posted - 09/29/2005 : 21:14:53
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Get this…
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Morning Edition, September 29, 2005 · Recently, a small biotech company started selling a new test to expectant parents that it says can reveal gender as early as five weeks into a pregnancy. But some customers and scientists are raising troubling questions about the Baby Gender Mentor test.
Thousands have reportedly ordered the test, which claims to give conclusive proof earlier than a sonogram. While the Food and Drug Administration doesn't regulate the test, which is classified as non-medical, several women have come forward to say their tests were wrong.
With Acu-Gen, the test's maker, offering little proof of its claims, anecdotal evidence of women with conflicting predictions worries Diana Bianchi. She's an expert on fetal DNA at Tufts University whose work is cited on Acu-Gen's Web site as proof that there's science behind the test.
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C N Wang, Acu-Gen President:
In the eyes of skepticism voice and words are redundant. Time will tell.
See: NPR report.
Also:
"As featured on ABC's World News Tonight, CNN, Science Magazine, NBC's Today show -- watch the TODAY show segment now, and other major news and media outlets! Offered Exclusively Online From PregnancyStore.com! Are you pregnant and want to know if you're having a boy or girl? Not pregnant yet but know that you want to know the sex of your baby when you are pregnant?"
And here:
"Is Acu-Gen for real?"
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
 Posted - 09/29/2005 : 21:56:27 [Permalink]
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From The Pregnancy Store:
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The Baby Gender Mentor lab is able to determine fetus-originated-specific chromosome sequence detected in the maternal blood stream. If there is fetus-originated Y-specific chromosome sequence detected in your blood, you are currently carrying at least one baby boy. If fetus-originated X-specific chromosome sequence is detected in your blood, you are currently carrying at least one baby girl. If there is a substantial amount fetus-originated Y-specific chromosome sequence detectable in your sample, indicating that you are carrying at least one baby boy AND there is a substantial amount of fetus-originated X-specific chromosome sequence detected in your blood, indicating that you are carrying at least one baby girl -- this means that you are currently carrying at least one baby girl and boy at this time.
But a girl carry two X-chromosomes, and a boy carries both X and Y. The thing will need to be able to tell the different Xs apart and compare them to the mother's both Xs in order to make heads or tails of the chromosomes. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 09/30/2005 : 21:05:09 [Permalink]
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| If there's a substantial number of fetal cells in the mother's bloodstream, I imagine it'd cause a serious immune reaction. Even people with carefully matched replacement organs from family members need to be on immune suppressants to avoid rejection. |
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