SINGAPORE (May 2): HealthBaby Biotech (Hong Kong), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cordlife Group, has launched a newborn metabolic screening service in Hong Kong.

This comes as part of Cordlife’s move to expand its diagnostics business, says the group in a press release issued on Wednesday.

Named Metascreen, the service uses urine instead of blood to detect over 100 inherited metabolic disorders – which is much more than what can be detected by conventional newborn metabolic screening tests currently available in Hong Kong, according to the group.

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