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A team from Cambridge's MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit analyzed MRI diffusion scans from 3,802 individuals ranging from newborns to 90 years old.

Mr. and Mrs. Holley’s newborn was not a girl—as the world would one day find out when Buddy removed the “e” from the family’s last name and became a professional singer.

The findings, published on November 28 in Science Immunology, indicate that protecting newborns from RSV could meaningfully lower asthma rates later in life.

The couple are backing a campaign by the charity SMA UK, which wants the disease to be added to a blood spot test that already checks newborn babies for 10 rare but serious conditions.

Now, doctors screen newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, and Zolgensma has shown efficacy at preventing progression External link of the disease over the long term.