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The Life-Saving Secrets in Your Baby’s DNA | Robert C. Green | TED

What if we could get a heads-up about serious health issues before they begin, from the moment a baby is born? In this groundbreaking talk, geneticist and physician Robert C. Green shares how his team became the first in the world to comprehensively sequence and analyze the DNA of healthy newborns, revealing hidden risks for…

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What if we could get a heads-up about serious health issues before they begin, from the moment a baby is born? In this groundbreaking talk, geneticist and physician Robert C. Green shares how his team became the first in the world to comprehensively sequence and analyze the DNA of healthy newborns, revealing hidden risks for treatable conditions. The future of medicine isn’t just about curing illness, he says — it’s about predicting and preventing it. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 10, 2025)

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15 Comments

  1. @Feel_the_ASI

    October 5, 2025 at 11:34 am

    Finally a TED talk that is actually impactful science

    • @armartin0003

      October 5, 2025 at 3:04 pm

      used to be like that all the time

  2. @Monica-gj2yx

    October 5, 2025 at 11:53 am

    I love preventative/proactive medicine!

    • @JackJackson-NBN

      October 5, 2025 at 2:39 pm

      Bot

  3. @WalkingwithDidi

    October 5, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Is it available worldwide?

  4. @buddhateja4423

    October 5, 2025 at 12:03 pm

    donnemartin/system-design-primer?tab=readme-ov-file

  5. @monicateicher3894

    October 5, 2025 at 12:09 pm

    Love the idea, however due to the healthcare system we live with I would be scared that it would be used against us. Data breaches are happening all the time and unless we had some form of universal healthcare I don’t know how it would be possible to protect our genetic information.

    • @ITSQUEENBABII

      October 6, 2025 at 1:08 am

      Right, but it’s not like they already not using our genetic info for studies

  6. @JackJackson-NBN

    October 5, 2025 at 12:52 pm

    Never ever

  7. @JackJackson-NBN

    October 5, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    Phyop dont buy it

    • @rajdivecha

      October 5, 2025 at 3:08 pm

      Phyop, meaning?

  8. @garciavashchino1

    October 5, 2025 at 3:40 pm

    lol… RFK will say it’s the cause of something and we won’t move forward…

  9. @simonepemp

    October 5, 2025 at 4:46 pm

    Makes me think of the movie Gattaca

  10. @AndreasA.S.

    October 5, 2025 at 5:59 pm

    in this day and age? bad times for bio identifiers

  11. @user-qt5eh9wb7g

    October 6, 2025 at 12:14 pm

    They want your DNA for their database so they can link people to crimes. Same reason they have ancestry kits, etc.

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