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Portrait of a pregnant woman. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
November 28, 2025, 12:52 pm
Health Ministry said to flag error in genetic test kit detecting rare mutation, reread results
Haaretz report concerns MECR mutation, part of Israel’s expanded screening panel; can lead to problems with movement, speech, vision; rare disease more common among Ashkenazi Jews
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: An in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London, August 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
October 14, 2022, 1:27 pm
Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel
Unlike simpler forms of testing used in IVF today, screening for polygenic diseases doesn’t offer a clear diagnosis but rather a ‘risk score’ for a Pandora’s box full of conditions
By Nirit Sandman Eriksson
Illustrative image: A 3D illustration of a fetus in the womb. (magicmine via iStock by Getty Images)
October 14, 2022, 10:56 am
Israeli needle-free alternative to amnio can detect thousands of mutations
Blood test developed by Tel Aviv University scientist provides detailed info on fetuses without associated health risks of amniocentesis
By Nathan Jeffay
An illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)
November 21, 2019, 6:08 pm
Israeli scientists say smart and tall ‘designer babies’ out of reach… for now
Hebrew University researchers find that current genetic selection methods for embryos yield only minimal impact on IQ or height
By Shoshanna Solomon
This undated fluorescence-colored microscope image made available by the National Institutes of Health in September 2016 shows a culture of human breast cancer cells. (Ewa Krawczyk/National Cancer Institute via AP)
August 22, 2019, 12:21 am
US task force: Ashkenazi Jewish women should be screened for breast cancer genes
High level of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation found in Ashkenazi Jews; gene testing allows affected women to consider steps to lower their risk, like preventive mastectomies
By Agencies
Illustrative image of a 9-10-week-old human fetus. (Flickr/lunar caustic/CC BY-SA)
February 20, 2019, 7:31 pm
Israeli team develops way to find genetic flaws in fetus at 11 weeks
Researchers at Tel Aviv University say their new noninvasive procedure to find chromosomal abnormalities has a ‘much higher resolution’ than methods used today
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustration of pipettes at a laboratory at Hebrew Universities Hadassah Ein Kerem medical center campus. June 16, 2013. (FLASH90)
July 4, 2018, 6:44 am
Health Ministry says women may have been misled about cancer testing
Health funds and hospital to track down women who saw Dr. Zvi Borochowitz after internal probe finds he advised against gene testing when it was needed in at least one case
By Sue Surkes
Karen Grinzaid
October 13, 2017, 1:39 am
Karen Grinzaid
Love, marriage and…genetic testing
Undergoing screening for genetic diseases needs to become one of the “automatics” for young Jews
Orthodox Jewish girls sing rap song about Dor Yeshorim, a genetic screening and matching organization. (YouTube)
May 21, 2016, 11:33 pm
Orthodox girls rap on genetic testing in viral video
While critical of widespread poverty in ultra-Orthodox community, unauthorized song encourages pre-marriage screening
By Renee Ghert-Zand
(L to R) Ido Sagi, the PhD student who led the research, and Prof. Nissim Benvenisty, principal co-author of the study and Director of the Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Credit: Hebrew University.)
March 16, 2016, 8:09 pm
Half a genome better than a whole in quest to understand mutations
Israeli breakthrough in isolating male and female chromosome sets could help stem cell researchers develop cures for genetic diseases
By David Shamah
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