Since 1978, more than 2.5 million Wisconsin babies have been touched by the University of Wisconsin–Madison within their first few days of being born.
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Routine test reveals rare diseases
“The newborn screening is most likely the first test of your child’s life,” says Mei Baker, MD, co-director of the Newborn Screening Laboratory at the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene and a Waisman Center affiliate investigator.
Patient-derived induced stem cells retain disease traits
When neurons started dying in Clive Svendsen’s lab dishes, he couldn’t have been more pleased.