Never heard of this disorder, so I'm probably very wrong, but I was wondering if maybe screening this disorder early in development would perhaps result in too many false positives? I'm not sure,...
Never heard of this disorder, so I'm probably very wrong, but I was wondering if maybe screening this disorder early in development would perhaps result in too many false positives? I'm not sure, but the article sounds to me like they really need funding. It starts with: 'Roughly once a day in the United States, a child is born with a fatal genetic disorder that destroys motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord.' By the way they used the word 'roughly' it seems to me like it is less than one newborn per day. So at most it is maybe one in 10.000 babies. Of all those thousands of babies a day in the US, I really doubt whether developing a screening method for this disorder may be worth the effort. On a side note: It would be worth the effort for the company producing the treatment.
Never heard of this disorder, so I'm probably very wrong, but I was wondering if maybe screening this disorder early in development would perhaps result in too many false positives? I'm not sure, but the article sounds to me like they really need funding. It starts with: 'Roughly once a day in the United States, a child is born with a fatal genetic disorder that destroys motor neurons in the brain stem and spinal cord.' By the way they used the word 'roughly' it seems to me like it is less than one newborn per day. So at most it is maybe one in 10.000 babies. Of all those thousands of babies a day in the US, I really doubt whether developing a screening method for this disorder may be worth the effort. On a side note: It would be worth the effort for the company producing the treatment.