The web site ModernHealthCare.com has reported that the National Institutes of Health will award $25 million to four research projects that plan to look at how genomic sequencing may improve the health of neonates.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital plan to analyze the potential of providing sequencing to newborns and then form clinical protocols addressing how medics should use a baby's genomic information.
“We're asking the question, if you have this information available, if you have the book of life, if you have every letter of your DNA to look at, how do we use it?” said Dr. Robert Green, a medical geneticist in Brigham and Women's Hospital's division of genetics.
ModernHealthCare.com discuss the idea that “genome and exome sequencing is a relatively new and unexplored tool for healthcare providers and can raise a number of ethical questions about how the newly discovered genomic data will be used by the patient and the healthcare provider.”
See more at NIH to award $25M to research babies' health | Modern Healthcare
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital plan to analyze the potential of providing sequencing to newborns and then form clinical protocols addressing how medics should use a baby's genomic information.
“We're asking the question, if you have this information available, if you have the book of life, if you have every letter of your DNA to look at, how do we use it?” said Dr. Robert Green, a medical geneticist in Brigham and Women's Hospital's division of genetics.
ModernHealthCare.com discuss the idea that “genome and exome sequencing is a relatively new and unexplored tool for healthcare providers and can raise a number of ethical questions about how the newly discovered genomic data will be used by the patient and the healthcare provider.”
See more at NIH to award $25M to research babies' health | Modern Healthcare
