Before you call the midwife

Laurie H Glimcher; Gregory A Petsko

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.011

Before you call the midwife

Cell. 2022 Oct 13;185(21):3849-3853. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.011. Epub 2022 Sep 28.

Authors

Laurie H Glimcher¹, Gregory A Petsko²

Affiliations

¹ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: laurie_glimcher@dfci.harvard.edu.
² Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases and Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: gpetsko@bwh.harvard.edu.

PMID: 36174580
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.09.011

Abstract

The 2022 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is presented to Yuk Ming Dennis Lo of the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the discovery of fetal DNA in maternal blood, leading to development of noninvasive prenatal testing for Down syndrome.

MeSH terms

Awards and Prizes*
Biomedical Research*
DNA
Female
Fetus
Humans
Midwifery*
Pregnancy

Substances

DNA