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January 26, 2023

PlumCare RWE Taps Lifebit to Scale Rady-Backed Newborn Sequencing Screening Program in Greece

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Lifebit said Wednesday that it has won a three-year contract from healthcare data company PlumCare RWE to support the scale-up of a newborn genome sequencing screening program in Greece.

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October 10, 2022

Genomic Newborn Screening Studies Around the World Begin to Take Baby Steps

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GENOMEWEB: [Newborn sequencing] research studies around the world are starting to get off the ground, ranging in size from 1,000 to more than 100,000 infants. At the inaugural International Conference on Newborn Sequencing (ICoNS) in Boston last week, eight of these endeavors — based in the US, Europe, and Australia — provided outlines of their plans and goals.

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August 25, 2022

BeginNGS Program Seeks to Improve Pediatric Rare Disease Dx, Treatment via Rapid NGS, Data Curation

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GENOMEWEB: In a paper published this week in the American Journal of Human Genetics, collaborators led by the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM) formally spelled out plans to improve detection and treatment of rare hereditary pediatric diseases through rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS).