When a baby is born in the United States, a few drops of blood are taken from their heel to test for many conditions that could affect the child’s long-term health or survival. This testing is part of ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A blood test developed in the 1960s to screen for PKU, or phenylketonuria, ...

My father makes every baby cry. Growing up, that’s what I told my friends when they asked what my scientist-doctor-dad had invented. They knew it had something to do with newborn babies, something to ...

The phenylketonuria (PKU) test is a diagnostic tool used to test infants for phenylketonuria a few days after birth. PKU is an autosomal recessive inborn error of ...

Newborn screening is the first and perhaps the most successful example of population-wide genetic testing. Performed within the first few days of life, drops of blood are collected from a newborn's ...

Newborn screening, which represents one of the major advances in child health of the past century, has been carried out in all fifty U.S. states since the 1970s. New-born screening programs are ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Within a few days after birth, babies around the world undergo a quick needle prick to the heel. The blood drop that results is used to detect as many as 50 genetic disorders so that, ...

Within a few days after birth, babies around the world undergo a quick needle prick to the heel. The blood drop that results is used to detect as many as 50 genetic disorders so that, if found, they ...