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The laboratory at Landspitali University Hospital, the country's  main medical center, where the majority of Icelandic women's prenatal blood tests are processed. The population of Down Syndrome is rapidly shrinking in Iceland due to radical genetic screening of pregnant women and counseling. Using an Ultrasonic, blood test and mother's age, the test, called the Combination Test, determines whether the fetus would have Down Syndrome.  . Read more....

A team of Researchers at Salk Institute have discovered a trove of neuronal subtypes and gene regulators, using a new method they developed. It allows for the discovery of subtypes based on their unique profiles of molecular switches that regulate gene expression within the cell.  This opens the door to potentially discovering any changes in such profiles that may be traceable to specific neuron subtypes in brain disorders, say the researchers. learn more....