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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.
During most of the pregnancy, the expectant mother nourishes her embryo/fetus through the placenta, the organ of pregnancy that connects the uterus to the embryo/fetus via the umbilical cord. The role of the placenta is to transfer nutrients and oxygen from the mother's bloodstream to the embryo/fetus.