# The life-saving secrets in your baby's DNA

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2025
- Speaker: Robert C. Green
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_c_green_the_life_saving_secrets_in_your_baby_s_dna)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What if we could get a heads-up about serious health issues before they begin, from the moment a baby is born? In this groundbreaking talk, medical geneticist and physician-scientist Robert C. Green shares how his team at the BabySeq Project became the first in the world to comprehensively sequence and analyze the DNA of healthy infants, revealing hidden risks for treatable conditions. The future of medicine isn’t just about curing illness, he says — it's about predicting and preventing it.

## Lectures

1. [The life-saving secrets in your baby's DNA](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/robert_c_green_the_life_saving_secrets_in_your_baby_s_dna/86730e7d6c2c), 11 min (TED's player)