New approach improves detection of diseases at birth
Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 12:20
in Health & Medicine
The combination of a new sequencing technique and machine learning can speed up the diagnosis of diseases in newborns and reduce false-positive results, Yale researchers and their collaborators report. Blood is routinely drawn from a pinprick of an infant’s heel shortly after birth and analyzed for a host of preventable diseases, including more than 40 […]