KPIX CBS July 3, 2024
Perfect memories. Little ronnie got a heel prick after birth. His newborn blood filled six spots used to test babies for dozens of disorders. A couple days after. We got a call. They learned ronnies heel prick revealed a disorder known as the bubble boy disease. His first infection could have killed him. Instead he was rushed to ucsf where he received life saving gene therapy and where he met dr. Puck. I could never develop a newborn test if we had not had stored dry blood spots. Reporter it was the first using distracted dna from leftover blood spots from the newborn biobank. You see, doctors...
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