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A former Grail exec and the president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub are developing a blood test to help expectant mothers understand the chances of pregnancy complications
April 27, 2021
With Mirvie, Quake and Jain are attempting to apply liquid biopsy technology more commonly found in oncology centers to pregnancy, a more common but significantly less funded area of research, according to Jain.
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Noninvasive blood tests for fetal development predict gestational age and preterm delivery
June 8, 2018
Low-cost methods for monitoring fetal development could improve prenatal care, especially in low-resource settings. By measuring the levels of certain placental RNA transcripts in maternal blood…
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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019 – How we’ll invent the future.
February 27, 2019
We asked Gates to choose this year’s list of inventions that will change the world for the better. I was honored when MIT Technology Review invited me to be the first guest curator of its 10 Breakthrough Technologies…
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Complications from preterm birth are the leading cause of death worldwide in children under five.
February 27, 2019
Fifteen million babies are born pre­maturely each year. Stephen Quake’s daughter, Zoe, was one of them: she arrived via emergency C-section after Quake and his wife, Athina, made a middle-of-the-night dash to the emergency room, a month before Zoe was due. She spent her first night in an incubator, and her father, a bioengineer then at Caltech, wondered why birth couldn’t be more predictable…
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