NIH Studies Universal Genome Sequencing At Birth

sciencehabit writes "In a few years, all new parents may go home from the hospital with not just a bundle of joy, but with something else—the complete sequence of their baby's DNA. A new research program funded at $25 million over 5 years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will explore the promise—and ethical challenges—of sequencing every newborn's genome."

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Dematerialization

[stud9920]

why even take the baby home? Isn't the DNA sequence stored somewhere in the cloud equivalent ?

Re:Are they collecting everything?

[Required Snark]

I misread it as NHL.