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The fetal DNA in a mother's blood can already reveal an infant's sex and other traits inherited from the father. But picking out a fetus's entire genome from its mother's is much tougher, says Dennis Lo, a chemical pathologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who led the study.
The placenta provides oxygen and nutrients to growing fetuses and removes waste products from the fetus's blood. The placenta attaches to the wall of the uterus, and the fetus's umbilical cord develops from the placenta. These organs connect the mother and the fetus.