The Race Against the Clock: Rapidly Diagnosing Critically Ill Newborns

Stephen Kingsmore, M.D., former executive director of Medical Panomics at Children’s Mercy Kansas City, and current president and chief executive officer of the Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, discusses the race against the clock to diagnosis critically ill newborns using whole genome sequencing. The 26-hour diagnosis described is outlined in this Genome Medicine paper, found here: [enter hyperlink]