Sequencing costs have decreased significantly, making genetic screening for babies less than $1,000.

“so at the outset of this discussion you mentioned that SMA actually has a successful gene therapy I was not aware of that yes um how many of these um uh single Gene highly penetrant conditions that that you know children are born with be it inborn eras of metabolism or neurod degener diseases Etc how many of them have FDA approved Gene therapies already”

“even over the course of this study the sequencing costs have come down if you can imagine it and we just started it like I said September 2022 less than a year ago but already the sequencing costs have come down I expect they'll continue to come down”

“so as we started out doing this round number $1,000 per baby so thinking about generating the data interpreting the data getting it back to folks cost of about $1,000 per baby”