{"id":98174,"date":"2019-11-05T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/all-children-to-receive-whole-genome-sequencing-at-birth-under-ambitions-laid-out"},"modified":"2019-11-05T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T23:22:39","slug":"all-children-to-receive-whole-genome-sequencing-at-birth-under-ambitions-laid-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/all-children-to-receive-whole-genome-sequencing-at-birth-under-ambitions-laid-out","title":{"rendered":"All children to receive whole genome sequencing at birth, under ambitions laid out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/all-children-to-receive-whole-genome-sequencing-at-birth-under-ambitions-laid-out.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All children will be able to receive whole genome sequencing at birth, under ambitions laid out by the Health Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Hancock said that in future, the tests would be routinely offered, alongside standard checks on newborns, in order to map out the risk of genetic diseases, and offer \u201cpredictive, personalised\u201d care.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers have already promised that such tests will be offered to all children diagnosed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/nhs-plan-key-points-new-134-page-strategy\/\">cancer by the end of this year.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All children will be able to receive whole genome sequencing at birth, under ambitions laid out by the Health Secretary. Matt Hancock said that in future, the tests would be routinely offered, alongside standard checks on newborns, in order to map out the risk of genetic diseases, and offer \u201cpredictive, personalised\u201d care. Ministers have already [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}