Should all babies have their genomes sequenced at birth? The question has been hotly debated for the past 15 years. Unlocking the genome’s 3.2-billion-letter code promises understanding of both health ...

‘BEACONS,’ a multi-state collaboration led by Mass General Brigham and Ariadne Labs, will enroll up to 30,000 newborns to explore adding genomic sequencing in U.S. newborn screening GAITHERSBURG, Md.- ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much earlier diagnosis and treatment, according to a new study. A baby’s genome ...

Large-scale initiatives within health care systems or public health programs that integrate genomics have a variety of goals such as providing information about clinically actionable genetic variants, ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

Adding genomic sequencing to newborn blood screening would detect hundreds of additional childhood conditions, providing much earlier diagnosis and treatment, according to a new study. A baby's genome ...

This project was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and 23andMe (unnumbered contract); Accenture (unnumbered contract); Air Force Medical Service (FA8052-17-P-0007); ...

Leading genomic health experts from Monash University are calling for urgent government funding to progress the development of a national preventive genomic testing program that would save thousands ...

A large Australian pilot shows that testing healthy young adults for high-risk genes can reveal serious disease risk years before symptoms appear, challenging traditional family history–based genetic ...