Yourgene Health announced the launch of the Sage™ 32 plex test, a new high throughput non-invasive prenatal testing ("NIPT") and analysis solution for clinical laboratories. Sage™ 32 plex uses the latest technology to detect placental DNA in a maternal blood sample, enabling pregnant women to get fast, safe and reliable test results, and reducing the number of women needing to undergo invasive follow-up tests with associated risks. The Sage™ 32 plex solution significantly improves efficiency, enabling up to 32 samples to be processed in one sequencing run, compared with just 12 samples previously. This will provide laboratories with enhanced flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness, while retaining all the high qualities of the existing Sage™ prenatal screen test. A combination of both workflow improvements and upgraded analysis methods have been incorporated to improve the test's overall performance and efficiency, with the addition of the new Yourgene QS250 instrument into the workflow. The higher throughput test runs on ThermoFisher's Ion Torrent sequencing technology and will be available internationally. The company plans to launch a CE-IVD marked version of the library preparation kit that is used in the Sage™ 32 plex workflow in the coming months.