Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego launched Project Baby Bear, the first state-funded program in California to offer rapid whole genome sequencing for newborns who are critically ill. The $2 million ...

Rady Children’s Hopsital is now licensed to perform clinical-grade diagnostic testing to decode the DNA of babies and children with rare genetic disorders. Rapid whole genome sequencing is being used ...

Speed of diagnosis is most critical in acute care situations, as in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where medical decision-making is made in hours not weeks. Using STAT-Seq, with consent from ...

Unravelling the entire genetic code for each child who has been diagnosed with cancer can give a more accurate diagnosis or reveal new treatment options, according to research presented at the NCRI ...

The health system’s researchers will pilot the technology for the Children’s Rare Disease Cohorts Initiative, according to a Dec. 6 press release from PacBio. The aim is to use the technology to ...

Clinical Value of RNA Sequencing–Based Classifiers for Prediction of the Five Conventional Breast Cancer Biomarkers: A Report From the Population-Based Multicenter Sweden Cancerome Analysis ...

The first resource containing high-resolution DNA sequencing data for over 37,000 children and parents collected over multiple decades from across the UK is now available to researchers worldwide. The ...

Genetic cancer testing has progressed rapidly in recent years, with a variety of tests now available and each capable of spotting specific gene mutations linked to certain types of cancer. The holy ...

AdventHealth for Children is partnering with San Diego-based Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine to bring rapid whole genome sequencing to Central Florida. The testing identifies the causes ...

Genome sequencing of tumors from children and adolescents with recurrent or refractory cancer led to over 100 patients receiving targeted therapies. Genomic sequencing of tumors in pediatric patients ...

For more than a decade, doctors have been trying to figure out what’s behind the weakness and fatigue that caused 11-year-old Adam Foye to miss 60 days of school last year. His symptoms match up with ...