This past July, the New York Genome Center opened its shiny new doors in downtown Manhattan. The massive, sparkling multi-million dollar 21st-century lab is now open for business, sequencing the genomes of sick patients in New York.
It hopes to replace the newborn screening that babies in New York state currently get with genome sequencing. In effect, every child born would have access to an enormous amount of information about his or her health future. Will he inherit the family’s tendency to diabetes? Or schizophrenia? Does she carry the Huntington’s disease gene? Or the BRCA1 gene mutation that will give her breast or ovarian cancer?
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