Newborn Screening: What Should Be Screened for and How?

Professor Laurent Servais, gave a talk at an online event entitled ‘Newborn Screening: What Should Be Screened for and How?’, held by the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Professor Servais showed several videos of children affected by spinal muscular SMA) to demonstrate the difference between children who received gene therapy before the onset of symptoms living normal lives – running around, climbing stairs – and children who received it after a later diagnosis, their lives saved but left unable to walk and requiring ventilation.