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Dr Siouxie Wiles talks to Kathryn about a new study which finds a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome present at birth.
What's incredible about this study is that the blood samples they analysed were all taken at birth as part of the newborn screening program.
In Australia, New Zealand and many other countries, babies have a small amount of blood taken from pricking their heel when they are about 2 days old.
This is then screened to look for more than 20 rare conditions that can make babies really sick so treatment can be started straight away.
Ongoing research is being crowd funded.
Siouxsie also looks at the use of sniffer dogs to detect Covid infection and researchers have just reported their results trying to grow plants in soil from the moon.
