In case you missed it: thePrenatal Diagnosiseditors bring you the most significant advances of 2014

The IONA® Test: Development of an Automated Cell-Free DNA-Based Screening Test for Fetal Trisomies 13, 18, and 21 That Employs the Ion Proton Semiconductor Sequencing Platform

“…A review of that work concluded that further studies were needed to determine if this platform is indeed suitable [24] . The test documented here demonstrates the suitability of the sequencing platform when integrated into the complete IONA test workflow comprising instruments and analysis software.…”

Right or wrong? Looking through the retrospectoscope to analyse predictions made a decade ago in prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery

“…At this meeting we discuss the key progress made in the specialties of prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy and begin to put together our traditional end of year publication "In Case You Missed It" to keep you up to date with developments in our field. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] We take turns to host the editors' meeting and have met in Washington, Leuven, Boston, London and Hertfordshire. This year, however, was different in more ways than one!…”

“…Usually, around mid‐October, the Associate Editors of Prenatal Diagnosis meet to make plans for the year to come and reflect on the year just gone. At this meeting we discuss the key progress made in the specialties of prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy and begin to put together our traditional end of year publication “In Case You Missed It” to keep you up to date with developments in our field 1‐7 . We take turns to host the editors' meeting and have met in Washington, Leuven, Boston, London and Hertfordshire.…”