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All babies in England to get DNA test to assess risk of diseases within 10 years
(www.theguardian.com)
Yay, Gattaca.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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Came here to say this.
Already widely used in the western world, glad we're catching up. This will save lives, hopefully lessen strain on the NHS, reduce waiting times, and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.
Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS, and the only time it should leave is when appropriately anonymised for medical research purposes (which already happens, the NHS helps a shit load of international researchers).
It should not remain in the NHS in my opinion. It should be deleted after the analysis is done.
Well parental consent to this is going to be interesting, given the father only gets it if the name is on the birth certificate (so marrital state is relevant) and that wouldn't happen for several weeks. So really the mother gets to decide...so paternity fraud is going be forefront of discussions.
Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.
In Isreal, it's illegal to get genetic testing done
What's the logic there?
Thank god. Paternity fraud finally not so easy.
Can't believe England's going to get this before people stop fucking their cousin.