Yury Verlinsky dies at 65; pioneered genetic testing method
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 02:21
in Biology & Nature
The researcher, a Russian emigre, was the first in the U.S. to perform chorionic villus sampling to detect birth defects. He also pioneered the development of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Yury Verlinsky, the Russian emigré who was the first researcher in the United States to perform chorionic villus sampling to detect birth defects and who pioneered the development of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to detect...