Due to possible delays in postal delivery in the Christmas season, we would like to ask you to send off your samples in good time before the Christmas holidays. Blood samples received by 10 a.m. Dec 18th will be processed and reported before Christmas. For blood samples received by 10 a.m. Dec 20th, we expect […]

By optimizing the laboratory process, we were able to significantly reduce the failure rate of the Harmony® test. An NIPT without a result often causes uncertainty among pregnant women and in many cases leads to further – usually invasive – clarification. A low rate of non-evaluable tests is therefore an important quality criteria for a

In a recent study, published in February 2023 in Prenatal Diagnosis, we investigated in collaboration with Prof. Kagan (University Women’s Hospital Tuebingen) the correlation between the screen-positive rate and the fetal fraction (proportion of cell-free fetal DNA) when screening for microdeletion 22q11.2 (DiGeorge syndrome). We analyzed own data from more than 50,000 singleton pregnancies. The