Why Scientists Are Sequencing Newborns’ Genomes

Twenty years after Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned animal, was born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and 15 years after the first draft of the human genome was released, the dream of using DNA sequencing to prevent illnesses is coming to fruition. Robert Green, director of the Genomes2People Research Program, explained the work of a baby genome-sequencing project at the 2016 Forbes Healthcare Summit.

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