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Israeli technology can check fetus and ID sex by fourth week
July 29, 2004
Israeli biotech company Monaliza Medical has developed technology to identify
and check embryo cells at a very early stage of pregnancy. This checks the
state of the fetus and identifies its sex by the fourth week, compared to the
present ability to find the sex by the 12th week.
The company, based in Ra'anana, has raised $3 million in its first round of
financing,Globes reported. Delta Ventures and Israel Health Care funds took
equal parts in the funding. Monaliza was founded by geneticists Professor Aliza
Amiel of Bar Ilan University and Professor Moshe Fejgin of Tel Aviv University.
While this technology is a useful tool for giving couples insight into
their babies health and letting them know early the sex of the child, there is
much debate recently in Asia that the technology is being misused by parents to
determine the sex of the fetus and then terminate female pregnancies.
Such practices have led to great imbalances in male/female birth ratios,
expecially in India and China.
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