A GROUNDBREAKING national trial designed to detect inherited disorders in early childhood is to be carried out at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
The latest newborn screening and genetic technologies will be used with a view to identifying a number of treatable conditions and avoiding possible mental deterioration or even death.
A high-tech tandem mass spectrometry machine can detect severa
l inherited disorders and diseases in a single screening, carried out in minutes. The £1.8m three-year project will be based at the hospital's Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Genetics, where samples of 500,000 children will be screened from April.
The research is backed by the South Yorkshire Applied Research and Care Consortium led by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.
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