Purpose: We provide background information/education for national recommendations to include initial newborn screening dried bloodspot serial numbers in electronic birth registrations. Mutual data ...

More than a decade ago, researchers launched the BabySeq Project, a pilot program to return newborn genomic sequencing results to parents and measure the effects on newborn care. Today, over 30 ...

UCSF Pediatrics Professor Jennifer Puck, MD, has spent decades pushing for universal newborn screening to detect severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), a rare but deadly genetic disorder. Today, ...

Today, the GUARDIAN study is moving newborn screening to genomic sequencing, potentially detecting hundreds of conditions before symptoms even appear. But can this cutting-edge technology replace ...

Every baby born in the United States is given a routine blood test to screen for dozens of inherited medical conditions. Now, the U.S. National Institutes of Health is exploring whether to use DNA ...

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ...

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 ...

As newborn screening programs expand to include babies’ entire genomes, parents must be made aware of the privacy risks and states must create rules to rein in unbridled police access to this data.

Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a ...

Shannon Smith describes her daughter's birth as not all that eventful. She and her husband drove 10 minutes from their home in rural Alabama across the state line to a hospital in Georgia where they ...

Early detection of rare but treatable diseases has long been one of public health’s quiet triumphs, sparing thousands of infants each year from preventable harm. The Advisory Committee on Heritable ...