This laboratorian is checking the dilution of an amniotic fluid cell culture using an inverted scope.



Amniotic fluid may be used as a cell culture medium in the prenatal diagnosis of aneuploidy, i.e. the presence of too few or too many chromosomes, or other chromosomal abnormalities.

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