Health and medicine the baby gender mentor test is a blood test designed to determine if a pregnant mother is carrying a boy or a girl.
Baby gender mentor home dna gender testing kit.
The test made a media debut on 17 june 2005 on the today show and it was featured in newsweek in october 2005.
Baby gender mentor is the trade name of a controversial blood test designed for prenatal sex discernment the test was manufactured by acu gen biolab inc a biotech company in lowell massachusetts united states.
The technology has been in the works for 14 years and is over 99.
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The lab detects and analyses fetal dna floating in the mother s blood and checks for the presence of y chromosomes which only males have.
Acu gen offers a double money back guarantee if the result is.
The test is made by acu gen biolab inc a biotech company in lowell massachusetts in the united states and is marketed to detect the gender of a fetus as early as five weeks after conception.
Customers are asked to send a finger prick blood sample to acu gen s lab in lowell massachusetts for testing.
About 4 500 people had purchased the test by march 2006.
Market today uses a blood sample to determine gender.
Acu gen promises the baby gender mentor test is virtually foolproof and can determine your unborn baby s gender as early as 5 weeks of gestation using only a few drops of the mother s blood from a finger prick.
The other type of kit sold on the u s.
Baby gender mentor is the trade name of a controversial blood test designed for prenatal sex discernment that is to determine whether a pregnant woman is carrying a male or female child.
If y chromosome dna is found then.
And for those who really and i mean really just can t wait for that 20 week ultrasound the baby gender mentor home dna testing kit can tell you the sex of your baby as early as 5 weeks after conception.
Baby gender mentor home dna gender testing kit from acu gen.
To use the baby gender mentor home dna gender testing kit a woman takes a small finger prick blood sample and sends it off to a lab in lowell massachusetts for testing.
Also the introduction of a united states patented sex determination kit called baby gender mentor home dna gender testing kit have raised fears about back door fetus determination tests.