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there is enormous potential here and in some cases these conditions where the intervention is there, it may save children s lives. dna sequencing used to be prohibitively expensive and time consuming no longer. this brave new world of genetics is only possible because machines like this can map our dna, more than 3 billion letters of code, faster and cheaper than ever before. there you go, there is your medicine, 0wen. the treatment for 0wen s rare thyroid disorder costs just a few pence a day. come on, let s go to school, then. ..but makes a massive difference to him and his family. we are moving on to looking at adding and subtracting multiples of ten. genome sequencing does raise ethical questions. it could identify children at high risk of cancer later in life but the research team say they will only look at treatable childhood conditions like 0wen s where early diagnosis may prevent serious harm.
whole genome sequencing will identify around 200 conditions, all of them treatable. i think it sounds fantastic to catch babies that could potentially be ill a little bit later so early. the voluntary study will enrol 100,000 healthy newborns who will have their entire dna mapped, looking for gene disorders that emerge in early childhood. we could avoid harm that is done by picking those conditions up late and also reduce the pressure on families but also the health system. there is enormous potential here and in some cases these conditions where the intervention is there, it may save children s lives. dna sequencing used to be prohibitively expensive and time consuming no longer. this brave new world of genetics is only possible because machines like this can map our dna, more than 3 billion letters of code, faster and cheaper than ever before.