Posts Tagged ‘Babies’
Babies have always being considered as quite good and intelligent learners as they focuses on each and every thing that happens around them, a recent study has revealed that even if the baby is sleeping he can apparently learn.
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As we all know that a newborn baby spends most of his time while sleeping and this new found ability might be crucial to rapidly adapt to the world and help to ensure their survival, as reported by researchers.
The study was taken on 26 sleeping infants each was just one to two days old, the scientists played a musical tone in front of those babies that was followed by puff of air to their eye, this procedure was repeated 200 times in half an hour.
Scientists claim that they have developed a new safer blood test that will help to tell pregnant women if their unborn babies have Down’s syndrome.
According to PNAS journal reports, the test of DNA evidence in 18 pregnant women’s blood correctly recognized nine cases of Down’s syndrome.
The test was conducted by the researchers from Stanford University and now they want a larger-scale test. In babies with Down’s syndrome there is an extra copy of chromosome 21 that becomes the cause of physical and intellectual impairments. Read the rest of this entry
