Early genome sequencing could save critically ill infants

In a trial of 35 critically ill newborns, more than half received a diagnosis and the urgent care they needed after rapid whole-genome sequencing was carried out.
The trial, which tool place at Children's Mercy Kansas City hospital in the US, was designed to show that the relatively quick turnaround of whole genome sequencing tests today could be far more beneficial in the care of extremely unwell infants, when compared to the standard genetic testing available. In this particular study, result