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Was mass spectrometry the right technique to screen large populations?
Renata Newborn Screening Podcast
English - June 17, 2021 15:30 - 32 minutes - 73.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLife Sciences Science News Tech News clinical diagnostics lcms newborn sciences screening Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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No one really knew whether mass spectrometry was up to the task of population screening. Could the instruments cope with the tens-of-thousands of dried blood spots that needed to be analyzed every year? In the mid 1990s, Dr. Mike Morris began working with newborn screening labs around the world to try and answer these questions.