Cutting the federal newborn screening advisory committee either demonstrates a lack of understanding of the group’s function ...

Newborn screening began in the US over 60 years ago with the PKU test. The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act received bipartisan support when it was passed in 2007. The Advisory Committee on ...

Shares in Synlogic have halved in value after the company reported that a phase 3 trial of its main pipeline drug for rare metabolic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) failed to show efficacy ...

PKU is a genetic disease that manifests at birth and results from an inability to break down phenylalanine (phe), an amino acid that is commonly found in many foods. Left untreated, high levels of ...

Peking University, March 31, 2025: A simulation on the origin and evolution of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research ... experiments testing whether a minimum ...

Specifically, Dr. Willard Centerwall, whose child was mentally handicapped, developed the first diagnostic test for PKU in 1957. Called the "wet diaper" test, Centerwall's test involved adding a ...