A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic ...

There is a danger that population genetic screening programs may be introduced without the necessary scrutiny and rigor that is usually applied when screening programs are put into effect, experts ...

Hunter syndrome and Fabry disease are now on the list of genetic conditions for which SC screens newborns ...

While non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has revolutionised prenatal diagnostics by allowing the detection of a number of ...

Did you know that most of the 7,000 to 10,000 rare diseases affect children? With 80% of rare diseases having a genetic cause, getting a head start on genetic testing for infants can be the key to an ...

When trying to understand how genetic influences factor into youth behavior, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have taken the "big trawl" approach, casting their net wide to pull in ...

What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose the traits your baby would have? Would you use it? These practically polar opposite ...

A remote genetics-first workflow used a no-imputation SNP panel GRS (AUC >0.9) with saliva collection and high-throughput ...

Hearing loss is a common cause of disability worldwide, with anywhere between 30-60% of cases being caused by genetic factors ...

South Carolina expands newborn genetic screening to detect and treat more conditions earlier, potentially saving lives.