The big news yesterday is that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made the decision to add Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) to the recommended newborn screening panel. Now I see this as being greatI hold a Master’s degree in Cell Biology and began my career working for several years as a lab technician in a drug discovery clinic, where I gained extensive hands-on experience in cell culture, assay development, and therapeutic research. That scientific foundation gave me an appreciati ...