{"id":32927,"date":"2012-06-07T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dna_blueprint_for_fetus_built_allows_potential_for_1000s_of_prenatal_geneti\/"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:15:19","slug":"dna_blueprint_for_fetus_built_allows_potential_for_1000s_of_prenatal_geneti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32927","title":{"rendered":"DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built, allows potential for 1000&#39;s of Prenatal Genetic Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from the pregnant woman and a saliva specimen from the father.<\/p>\n<p>The accomplishment heralds an era in which parents might find it easier to know the complete DNA blueprint of a child months before it is born&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an extraordinary piece of technology, really quite remarkable,\u201d\u009d said Peter Benn, professor of genetics and developmental biology at the University of Connecticut, who was not involved in the work. \u201cWhat I see in this paper is a glance into the future.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/07\/health\/tests-of-parents-are-used-to-map-genes-of-a-fetus.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have determined virtually the entire genome of a fetus using only a blood sample from the pregnant woman and a saliva specimen from the father. The accomplishment heralds an era in which parents might find<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32927\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,96,98,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}